Red-figure pottery: Quick Facts

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Figure 119: Revelling satyrs, Attic psykter (wine cooler) in the red-figure style, signed by Douris, c. 480 BC. In the British Museum. Height 28.6 cm.

Hades and Persephone

Athenian red-figure cup, detail of a bearded reveler by the Brygos Painter, c. 490 bc; in the Louvre, Paris.

Odysseus slaying the suitors, detail of a red-figure skyphos from Tarquinii, c. 450 bc; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ger.

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Greek pottery black-figure pottery Minyan ware Amphora Alabastron Krater Lekythos aryballos Kylix Hydria Psykter