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It made them the earliest-dated blue-and-white porcelains known at the time of their acquisition, although blue-and-white porcelains are likely to have been made earlier. The vases are named after Sir Percival David who collected the vases from two different sources, and form part of the collection of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese ...
Mycenaean pottery. Mycenae. Linear B Mukānai. A Mycenaean stirrup jar, hallmark of the olive oil trade in the Late Bronze Age. Furumark shape 46, type 171, Late Helladic IIIA or B, dated 1400 to 1200 BC. Material. Terracotta. Discovered. Greek mainland and small islands close to it, from the Peloponnesus in the south to Macedonia in the north.
A krater by the Painter of Athens 1375, circa 375/50 BC. Paris, Louvre. The Kerch style / ˈkɜːrtʃ /, also referred to as Kerch vases, is an archaeological term describing vases from the final phase of Attic red-figure pottery production. Their exact chronology remains problematic, but they are generally assumed to have been produced roughly ...
Pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum), [1] it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society.
A vaseform of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Place. Circum-Mediterranean. A krater or crater (Ancient Greek: κρᾱτήρ, romanized: krātḗr, lit. 'mixing vessel', IPA: [kraː.tɛ̌ːr]; Latin: crātēr, IPA: [ˈkraː.teːr]) was a large two-handled type of vase in Ancient Greek pottery and metalwork, mostly used for the mixing of wine ...
Typology of Greek vase shapes. A Nolan amphora, a type with a longer and narrower neck than usual, from Nola. Attic komast cup, a variety of kylix, Louvre. Diagram of the parts of a typical Athenian vase, in this case a volute krater. The pottery of ancient Greece has a long history and the form of Greek vase shapes has had a continuous ...