[Illustration:
Kyathos, ladle used for dipping wine from the krater into the drinking
cups.
]
[Illustration:
Small cup with offset lip, two handles, and no foot.
In the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
]
[Illustration:
Small cup without handles.
]
[Illustration:
One-handled cup with offset lip and no foot.
]
[Illustration:
Phiale, shallow bowl with a central boss. This shape was used
especially for libations.
In the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
]
[Illustration:
Mastos, so called because the shape resembles a woman’s breast.
In the British Museum.
]
[Illustration:
Cup with two handles, one horizontal and the other vertical.
]
[Illustration:
Pinax, a flat plate. Note how well the decoration is adapted to the
space.
In the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
]
MOULDED VASES. The bodies of these vases were made in moulds in the form
of human and animal heads while the mouths were shaped on the wheel.
Such moulds, however, were not used for producing hundreds of identical
vases, as nowadays.
[Illustration:
Aryballos in the shape of a negro’s head.
In the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
]
[Illustration:
Cup in the form of two female heads, back to back.
]
[Illustration:
Cup in the form of a Seilenos head.
Owned by Albert Gallatin, New York.
]
[Illustration:
Cup without handles in the form of a woman’s head.
]
[Illustration:
Cup in the form of a cow’s head.
]
[Illustration:
Cup in the form of a horse’s head.
]
[Illustration:
Cup in the form of a ram’s head.
In the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
]
[Illustration:
Cup in the form of a mule’s head.
In the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
]
LEKYTHOS. Oil-jug. The narrow neck and deep mouth were designed to make
the liquid flow out slowly.
[Illustration:
Early black-figured example with egg-shaped body and no distinct
shoulder.
]
[Illustration:
Later black-figured type with high neck and shoulder distinct from the
body.
]
[Illustration:
Black-figured lekythos with broad shoulder distinct from the body.
]
[Illustration:
Early red-figured type of squat shape with large flat foot.
]
[Illustration:
Lekythos of the finest type with slender body and high neck and
handle.
]
[Illustration:
Lekythos of the later fifth century, of exaggerated slenderness.
]
[Illustration:
Squat lekythos with broad flat foot, a shape popular among the later
Athenian potters.
]