East Greek vase painting

East Greek vase painting was a regional style of Greek vase painting. Despite the wealth of the region, the ceramic was rather unimpressive. The clay is reddish brown to pink and has many inclusions of mica on. Meanwhile, it was recognized that there were many regional styles in eastern Greece.

In the eastern Greek Geometric vase painting, starting with the medium Geometric period, a strong influence of Attic models was apparent. Especially on Kos this was felt early, although in the form of lekythoi the influence of Cyprus can be seen. On Rhodes were also found larger vases, including craters on high foot. Characteristic of East Greek vases were hatched meanders, triangles and rhombuses. In the late period and waterfowl were added. It was taken the Attic Metop system, but quickly abandoned. Towards the end of the geometric time vases were frequently provided with a white coating, on which the drawings are applied.

Until the seventh century BC, the geometric forms be handed down within the Subgeometrischen style. This subgeometrische style stayed here much longer than in other Greek regions. It was not until around 650 BC, he was replaced by an animal oriental style. He first came to the area around Miletus, a second center developed from about 625 BC to Chios. The decoration scheme based on the animal style is named after the animal wild goat style most often shown ( "Wild Goat "). Until 600 BC was only worked with outline drawings and cut-outs, then sat by Nordionien coming to the use of engravings ( black-figure style) a. The animal frieze style was quite decorative, but offered little opportunity for further development. Especially in Ionia now formed out regional styles.