Attic clay contains quite a lot of iron, which explains its rich red colour. Corinthian clay, for example, was more cream-coloured. Ferric oxide is red in colour, but when fired in an environment with little oxygen i. Attic pottery was fired in three stages: an oxidising phase during which clay and slip turned red , a reducing phase that would have turned the clay slip black and hardened it , and finally another oxidising phase to finish the procedure.
Still, this fine tableware was usually fired at a much higher temperature than — generally speaking — everyday cooking wares and the like. You can even hear the difference: if you drop a shard of an Attic red-figure vase on the table, it will ring, whereas a shard from a normal, coarse cooking pot tends to sound dull when you drop it on a hard surface as a more or less general rule; again, there is plenty of variation, and cooking wares were sometimes fired at high temperatures, too!
The process is simple on the surface, yet requires a great deal of knowledge and experience to pull off successfully. Edit : my thanks to Prof. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on July 23, by Josho Brouwers. Hey, Great post! I was wondering if I could ask you a few further questions about the making of vases? I'm looking into it for part of my university studies.
Thank you, Ellie. Thanks for the link and info about Greek pots. I am still puzzled about what fuel was used for firing and how temperature was measured.
Can you answer these questions? Around B. As the wheel spun, the clay would be pulled up by the fingers into the required shape. Large pots were done in several sections and the sections joined together by slip a mixture of clay and water. The joins on the outside of the vessel are usually not noticeable but they can often be seen on the inside of the pot.
The foot, the spout and the handles were also produced separately. Like the body sections, the clay was allowed to dry until it had achieved the consistency of leather at which point they were joined with the slip.
If the vase was to be decorated and common or coarse wares were not , it was done at this point. There are dozens of types and shapes of pottery vessels ranging in size from small perfume flasks to containers which served as large tubs and coffins. Depending on the era and location of production the pottery exhibits a wide range of decoration. The chronology of Greek pottery has been well-established.
Even to the untrained eye, there is a very distinctive difference between a proto-geometric vase from Athens produced in the 10 th century B. Greek Wedding Jar. The Greeks used iron-rich clay, which turned red when heated in the kiln. Potters from Corinth and Athens used a special watery mixture of clay to paint their pots while the clay was still soft. After it was baked in the kiln, the sections of the pot they had painted with the clay would turn black, while the rest of the pot was red-brown.
Ancient Greece. The Athenian Agora and the experiment in democracy. Peplos Kore from the Acropolis. Making Greek vases. Niobid Painter, Niobid Krater. Polykleitos, Doryphoros Spear Bearer. Polykleitos, Doryphoros Spear-Bearer. Who owns the Parthenon sculptures? Phidias, Parthenon sculptures pediments, metopes and frieze. Winged Victory Nike of Samothrace. Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon. Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii. Apollonius, Seated Boxer.
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