black-figure

American  

[blak-fig-yer] / ˈblækˌfɪg yər /

Or blackfigured

adjective

1. 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.

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Etymology

Origin of black-figure

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

One is a black-figure amphora, or vessel, made in Attica in Greece by the potter and painter Exekias in around 530BC.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2019

An Etruscan black-figure vase with dolphins, dating to 510-500 B.C., was seized from the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio.

From New York Times • May 26, 2015

Here the adoption of Corinthian and Ionian technical improvements evolved by the middle of the 6th century the fully developed black-figure style which by degrees supplanted or assimilated all other schools.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various