Black and White Illustration of Beautifully Decorated Ancient Greek Vase by Ideabug

ATTRIBUTED TO THE MANNER OF THE ANTIMENES PAINTER, CIRCA 520-510 B.C.

This red-figured amphora is attributed to the “Kleophrades Painter”: an anonymous red-figure Athenian vase painter, who was active from approximately 510 – 470 BC. The name “Kleophrades painter” arises from a potter's inscription “Kleophrades” on a cup now in Paris Red figured Attic Amphora. c. 500-490 BC. Munich. Antikensammlungen

Stamnos with Reclining Banqueters and Revelers, (Greece, active circa 500 B.C.), Greece, Attica, circa 500 B.C., Furnishings, Black-figure ceramic with added red and white.

A CHALCIDIAN BLACK-FIGURED NECK-AMPHORA CIRCA 530-520 B.C. The obverse with a seated lion, his body facing right, his head turned back, flanked by two confronting panthers, their bodies elongated, their tails curling, rosettes in the field; the reverse with a splayed-winged siren, her head turned back; a solid black band encircling below, rays above the foot, lotus-bud chain on the shoulders, a red fillet at the join of the foot and body 8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) high

This early Iranian made beaker created in Susa (modern Shush in Iran) which is now in Louvre Museum of Paris, depicts a bold, minimalist and stylized graphic design. On the rim of the beaker long necked cranes are drawn, and beneath them there are racing hounds that are simplified into some horizontal streaks. The design of an ibex (a mountain goat) with few sweeping curves constitutes the main motif of this ancient design. (5000 BC) Painted pottery urn (gang), Yangshao Culture (c. 3500-3000…

Greek amphora