Ribbon shell
Ribbon bowls are a form of the ancient Greek Attic Kleinmeister bowls .
The lips of the ribbon cups are black and slightly concave. There is often a red ring at the junction between the shell body and the shell base. The outer figure decoration can be found in the area of the handle, mostly framed between palmettes . Interior images are rarer with this type of bowl, as are inscriptions. Only a few copies are completely black apart from a few figure drawings in the handle area. Also very few pieces that are ascribed to the circle of Andokides have figure drawings on the flat underside of the bowl base.
It is unknown why the ribbon and rim shells coexisted for so long. Perhaps both variants had their respective merits. So it was certainly more pleasant to drink from an undecorated black rim of a ribbon bowl, but a strong ridge below the lip of the rim bowl meant that the wine could not spill over so easily when drinking. The edge shells were more difficult to manufacture.
Well-known artists of this type of bowl are Hermogenes , Glaukytes , the Centaur Painter , Neandros , Sokles and the Oakeshott Painter .
literature
- John Boardman : Black-Figure Vases from Athens. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 1). von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0233-9 , p. 66.
