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Related content for the article "Greek vases: names, shapes and functions"
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Greek vase painters and potters
Making and decorating Athenian black- and red-figure vases
Firing Athenian black and red figure vases
Related highlight objects
Clay ground 'Hadra' water-jar (hydria), attributed to the Dromeus Painter
Black-figured neck-amphora, signed by the potter Andokides; attributed to the painter Psiax
Neck-handled amphora with two designs of concentric circles
Black-figured bowl (dinos) and stand, signed by Sophilos as painter
Red-figured water jar (hydria), attributed to the Lipari Painter
Pictorial Style bowl (krater)
Red-figured wine bowl (calyx-krater)
Pottery perfume bottle (alabastron), attributed to the Pescia Romana Painter
Decorated bucchero ware bowl (olla)
Pottery stemmed bowl decorated with a procession of riders in chariots
Pictorial Style vase decorated with sphinxes and griffins
Black-on-Red ware flask in the form of an ox
Decorated pottery vase
Black-figured amphora decorated with a winged Nike
Pottery ointment jar (alabastron) decorated in the 'Marine Style'
Red-figured wine bowl (bell-krater), signed by the painter Python
Perfume bottle (aryballos) with lion-head mouth, attributed to the Chigi Painter
Rhyton in the shape of a bull's head
Large pottery storage jar (pithos)
Bucchero ware water jug (hydria)
Terracotta perfume flask (askos) in the form of a lion
Red-figured drinking horn (rhyton), signed by the potter Sotades
Ribbed black-glaze jug (oinochoe)
Bowl (kalathos) with female figures
Red-figured wine-cooler (psykter), signed by Douris as painter
Panathenaic prize amphora, signed by the potter Kittos
Black-figured amphora
Askos in the form of a duck
Fikellura style amphora with a running man
Red-figured storage jar (pelike), attributed to the Marsyas Painter
Pedestalled krater
Faience perfume bottle (aryballos) in the form of a dolphin
Kotyle with a running hound, attributed to the Hound Painter
Miniature krater with ram's head handles
A 'Queen's Vase'
Red-figured neck-amphora (jar), attributed to the Libation Painter
Ribbed loutrophoros, attributed to the Painter of the Louvre Bottle
Red-figured wine bowl (calyx-krater), attributed to the Niobid Painter
'West Slope' ware jug (oinochoe) with a gorgon's head on the neck
Red-figured squat oil- or perfume-jar (lekythos), in the style of the Meidias Painter
White-ground lekythos with a scene at a tomb
Red-figured wine bowl (bell-krater), attributed to the McDaniel Painter
Red-figured volute-krater attributed to the Berlin Painter
Black-figured amphora
Chalkidian black-figured column-krater, attributed to the Inscription Painter
Lekythos showing Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos' cave
Black-figured water-jar (hydria) with a scene at a fountain-house
Black-figured water-jar (hydria) with mythical and real scenes
Black-figured amphora (wine-jar) signed by Exekias as potter and attributed to him as painter
Red-figured water jar (hydria), signed by Meidias as potter
Red-figured wine bowl (volute-krater), attributed to the Baltimore Painter
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