Shamrock

Early Attic black-figure Olpe by the Kerameikos painter ; upper zone: winged youth ( Aristaios ) between lions, lower zone: sirens , panthers and lotus flowers; around 600 BC Chr .; National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Shamrock pots are a variety of the ancient Greek pots defined by their mouth shape.

Oinochoe in the Corinthian animal frieze style, around 630 BC BC, State Collections of Antiquities

Four-leaf clover pots are primarily used in two types of Greek vases, the oinochoe and the olpe . The shape got its modern name because of its mouth, which reminds of a clover leaf when looking at it from above .

literature

• Wolfgang Schiering : The Greek clay pots. Shape, purpose and change of form (= Gebr.-Mann-Studio-series ). 2nd, significantly changed and expanded edition. Mann, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-7861-1325-4 , pp. 146, 152f.