Dance History Gallery

s5702

Black-figure plate. Young woman dancing with krotala

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DATE: -495
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 22.9 cm diameter
COMMENTS: In the black-figure technique, an image was applied to a vessel in black lacquer, which contrasted with the natural colour of the fired clay. Here a dancing girl, possibly a maenad (a follower of the
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica

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