Greek Vases

Ancient pottery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art — 3 vases

Guide to Vase Shapes How the Greeks Made Their Vases
Intact All Fragments
All GEO ORI BF RF WG BIL
Techniques
GEO Geometric c. 900–700 BC
ORI Orientalising c. 720–620 BC
BF Black-figure c. 620–480 BC
RF Red-figure c. 530–320 BC
WG White-ground c. 500–400 BC
BIL Bilingual c. 530–510 BC
All Shapes Lekythos 1
Best Date Title Painter
Terracotta pointed aryballos (oil flask)
Lekythos
GEO late 7th–early 6th century BCE
Terracotta four-handled amphora (jar)
four-handled amphora (jar)
Etruscan, Italo-Corinthian ca. 675–650 BCE
Terracotta olpe (jug)
olpe (jug)
BF ca. 600–575 BCE
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)