Klazomenian vase painting

The Klazomenische vase painting was a regional style of Greek vase painting and belonged to the eastern Greek vase painting.

In Klazomenai you painted around the middle of the 6th century BC ( about 550 to 530 BC ), primarily amphoras and hydria and deep bowls with flat, square -like figures. The vessels are not worked very elegant. Happy woman dance or animals are depicted. Leading workshops were those of the Tübingen Painter, the Petrie Painter, and the Urla Group. The majority of the vases was found in Naucratis and in 525 BC discontinued Tell Defenneh. The origin was initially unclear, Robert tooth recognized by comparisons with the images on sarcophagi Klazomenian called the origin. Not infrequently, pottery was decorated with plastic woman masks. Mythological scenes are seldom shown, popular are shed ornaments, rows of white dots and stiff -looking woman dance. Singular and unusual presentation of a herald was before a king and a queen. Characteristic of men were mighty spade beards in general. Ever since 600, to about 520 BC, the rosette cups, successor to the eastern Greek bird bowls were probably made in Klazomenai.