Technique
Red-figure
Period
c. 530–320 BC
Collection
35588 vases
The technique that revolutionised Greek vase painting. Figures are left in the natural red clay colour while the background is painted black. This allowed painters to use a brush for internal details instead of an incising tool, enabling far greater naturalism, anatomical detail, and emotional expression.
35588 examples
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
early 1st century CE
Terracotta statuette of a gladiator
1st–2nd century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
early 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
early 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)
Oinochoe
· 1st century CE
Terracotta bowl
ca. 1–10 CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta bowl fragment
1st–2nd century CE
Terracotta head of a panther
1st century CE
Terracotta scyphus (drinking cup) with barbotine decoration
Skyphos
· 1st century CE
Vase
1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta lead-glazed scyphus (drinking cup)
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta bowl
Kylix
· 1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta bowl
ca. 1–300 CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta scyphus (drinking cup)
Skyphos
· 1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Lamp, saucer-shaped
ca. 1–300 CE
Terracotta jug
1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
early 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1–50 CE
Terracotta scyphus (drinking cup)
Skyphos
· 1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta bowl
1st century CE
Terracotta jug with barbotine decoration
1st century CE
Terracotta plate
Signed by Speratus
· early 1st century CE
Terracotta vase fragment with figure of Hercules
1st–2nd century CE
Terracotta stemmed bowl
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta bowl
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
early 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta pyxis (box) with lid
Pyxis
· ca. 1–300 CE
Terracotta amphora (jar)
Amphora
· 1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp fragment
1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta oil lamp
1st century CE
Terracotta lamp
1st half of 1st century CE
Terracotta atramentarium (inkwell)
1st half of 1st century CE
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