Slip painting

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Kamares-style ornament on a vessel

As Schlickermalerei a technique for painting is of ceramic products referred to in the brush a different-colored, viscous clay suspension ( slurry is applied) on a molded, leather hard, but not yet fired pottery. In earthenware this is a common decorative technique. If this slip is applied with a painting horn or similar device, it is called a painting horn decor.

Barbotine technique

Roman terra sigillata plate with barbotine decoration

In the archaeological context, the term barbotine technique is also used for slip painting. This term is particularly common in addressing Minoan ceramics of the Kamares style and in Attic vase painting of the 4th century BC. BC, where it is widespread in so-called black varnish ceramics . Vessels decorated with barbotines are known primarily from the Roman era . The technique has been applied to a wide variety of different types of goods. Barbotine decor can be found on Terra Sigillata , Belgian goods as well as on the so-called Wetterau goods . Black engobed cups with black (so-called " hunting cups ") or white plating, the so-called Trier saying cups, are still prominent .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ C. Zervos: L'art de la Crete neolithique et minoenne. 1956, p. 234 ff.
  2. G. Köpcke: Study on Attic black varnish ceramics . (Diss.) Munich 1962.

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