Greek Pottery Review

These 2 cities were the epicenter of Ancient Greek Pottery

• Rhodes & Crete

• Athens & Corinth

• Sicily & Rome

• Madrid & Barcelona

Coating greenware with underglaze, then scratch through leather-hard clay to expose the underlying clay color

• Sgraffito

• Incising

• Black figure technique

• Carving

Black silhouettes on a clay ground with details rendered by incised lines in black before firing

• Layering

• Underglaze

• Sgraffito

• Black Figure Technique

Scratching, carving or cutting into the soft plastic clay

• Scoring

• Slipping

• Incising

• Sgraffito

A decorative pattern or design

• Shapes

• Lines

• Elements

• Motif