Centuripe ware
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Centuripe ware, or East Sicilian polychrome ware, or the Centuripe Class of vase, is a type of polychrome Sicilian vase painting from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. It is rare, with only some 50 exampl
Vase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showing a bride and attendants.
Lekanis in Düsseldorf
Lekanis in Legnano, with parts reconstructed.
Centuripe vase in Palermo, 280–220 BC
White-ground technique
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White-ground technique is a style of white ancient Greek pottery and the painting in which figures appear on a white background. It developed in the region of Attica, dated to about 500 BC. It was esp
Kylix of Apollo, Attic, c. 460 BC. Apollo pours a libation, detail.
Attic white-ground lekythos (type I) depicting Heracles fighting Geryon, Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum, Palermo
Spinning woman, Attic oinochoe (type III), probably from Locri, by the Brygos Painter, c. 490 BC
Hera on the tondo of an Attic white-ground kylix (type IV) found at Vulci, by the Sabouroff Painter (c. 470 BC)