East Greek Bird Bowl

East Greek bird bowl is a type of East Greek vase painting.

East Greek bird shell developed around 700 BC, probably in Nordionien out of a bird kotyle. Actually subgeometrisch Stylistically, include the bird shells for oriental vase painting. In section, the trays have a diameter of 15 centimeters. In general, the bowls are decorated with three metopes. In the central, long rectangular box, a hatched bird is shown. The side panels are adorned with shaded diamonds.

The earliest bird shells have under the edge of a paragraph and have an extra dot ribbon under the decoration, including dish basin is kept black. To 675 BC the heel and point tape were abandoned, from about 640 BC the previous black colored bottom part of the bowl pool was left tongrundig. The lower layer was then marked with an asterisk or with five rays. The shaded diamonds were replaced by small jets. To 615 BC disappeared the dividing lines between the metopes windows. At the same time, the ring foot was replaced by a Scheibenfuß with a depression in the middle. The production of bird bowls ended after about a century to 600 BC successor to the bird shells the rosette dishes were. In addition to the eastern Greek bird shells were also Boeotian bird shells during the Orientalizing period.