They are often decorated with symposiac scenes.
Attic red figure cup.
The final decades of attic red—figure vase painting are dominated by the kerch style.
The interior of a kylix typically has a painted scene within a tondo, or circular frame, which would have been gradually revealed to the drinker as the wine was consumed.
This is a wonderful and important attic cup, decorated by a well known painter.
He is named πιlιποσ (retr.;
Rising from a round foot and a thin stem, the cup flares out to a wide bowl with two handles on opposite sides.
Smikros 33 × 25.5 cm (13 × 10 1/16 in.) 82.ae.53.
The rich and simple styles both existed until that time.
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Erotes and a seated dancing woman (eudia).
This style, current between 370 and 330 bc,.
This fragment is from the bowl and preserves a partial head and right shoulder of a female facing left.
Paul getty museum los angeles, united states.
On the inside of this drinking cup, a nude young athlete pours oil from an aryballos into his left hand.
37 cm (14 5/8 in.);
A youth reclines against a large striped cushion on a couch (only the horizontal board shown) to the left.
This refined athenian stamnos was used to hold and mix wine.
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