Greek Pottery

• Categories:– Stone Age

– Early Bronze Age– Late Bronze Age– Sub-Mycenean (Dark Age)

History

Greek Pottery

• Pottery was used to “store, transport, and drink liquids such as wine and water” (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

• Depict mythological scenes• Decorative pieces

Uses

Greek PotteryBronze Vessels

Greek Pottery

• Bronze Age—Pottery wheel• Athens– Mythological depictions– Pots on graves

Clay Pottery

Greek Pottery

• Pot styles:– Amphora--storage

– Alabastron--perfume

– Hydria--water

– Lekythos--oil

Styles

• Painting Styles:– Geometric

– Black-Figure

– Red-Figure

Greek PotteryStyles

Misc. Pictures

Aeneas carrying Anchises. Attic black-figure oinochoe, c. 520-510 BC.

Head of a griffin from a cauldron, third quarter of 7th century b.c. from Olympia

Dionysos, Ariadne, satyrs and maenads. Side A of an Attic red-figure calyx-krater, c. 400-375 B.C. From Thebes.

Theseus. From Theseus and the Gathering of the Argonauts. Attic red-figure calyx, 460-450 B.C.

Idas and Marpessa are separated by Zeus. Attic red-figure psykter, c. 480 B.C., by the Pan Painter.

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4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Ancient Greek Bronze Vessels." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. Web. 18 Dec. 2010. <http://metmuseum.org/toah/hd/agbv/ hd_agbv.htm>.

There is an illustration on the wall behind the pottery potty training chair showing how the child would sit in this clay potty chair.