The firing was stopped before the slip turned red once again. The fresh oxygen supply turned the pottery back to red. The kiln was then starved of oxygen and filled with carbon monoxide (by using wet fuel), causing the slip to turn black. The maenad stands before him, holding a tympanon (frame drum), decorated with a star in her right hand, while she gestures towards another thyrsus with her left. Dionysus is seated on the left, holding a thyrsus (pine staff) in one hand. Careful control of the firing process allowed Greek potters to oxidise the body of the pot, turning it red, by keeping the kiln well ventilated. Red-figure krater depicting the god Dionysus and a Maenad, one of his female followers. The vase is decorated in the 'red figure' technique in which the areas surrounding the figures are painted in a slip (mixture of clay and water), leaving the red pottery showing through. These formed the nucleus for Hope's own collection of vases, which he displayed at Duchess Street. It is sometimes easy to determine, which side of an ancient Greek vase was meant to face the viewer: the front differs from the back, the 'B-side,' in the quality and sophistication of the decoration. In 1801 Hope purchased the second collection of ancient vases formed by Sir William Hamilton, formerly the British Ambassador to the Naples court. (1807), illustrating objects he had designed for his London house at Duchess Street. The Gods of Ancient Greece (Edinburgh, 2010) Thomas Carpenter Download Free PDF View PDF Dionysos and the Underworld in Toledo 1996 Sarah Iles Johnston Download Free PDF View PDF D. The most important of these publications was Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. Download Free PDF Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater - AM.0033 Fayez Barakat Download Free PDF Related Papers Gods in Apulia from Bremmer and Erskine eds. The vase was once owned by Thomas Hope (1769-1831), the collector, connoisseur, patron and designer, who published a number of influential books of designs. are covered with mythological images painted in the red-figure technique. 480 BCE (Classical) terracotta, wheel made red figure (Ancient Greece ) This krater (a vase for mixing water with wine) by the Walters Painter depicts a woman holding a spindle. The krater was an ancient Greek vase with two handles that was used to mix wine and water. The volute-krater, a vase of imposing shape made from the Archaic through the. Download Image Zoom slide 1 to 4 of 4 Column Krater with Standing Figures Attributed to the Walters Painter (Greek, active ca.
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