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Terracotta Phiale with Six's Technique in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2008

Terracotta Phiale with Six's Technique in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2008
Terracotta Phiale (libation bowl)
Greek, Attic, Six's technique, ca. 500 BC
Interior: ivy leaves

Accession # 1974.11.3

The phiale was used to pour libations, liquid offerings. Its size fits the hand perfectly with the middle fingers in the central hollow and the thumb on the lip. The decoration was not executed in the traditional combination of glazed and unglazed areas. Instead, the motifs were applied in added color over the glaze before firing. The technique is named after Jan Six, a modern Dutch scholar who published an early study of it.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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