black-figure
or black·fig·ured
[ blak-fig-yer ]
adjective
pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
Origin of black-figure
1First recorded in 1890–95
- Compare red-figure.
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