Painters first covered the pot with slip but left or ‘reserved’ the shapes of the figures unpainted to reveal the underlying clay body.

“…red-figure technique-so called because red figures stand out against a black background. These techniques were known as black-figure and red-figure. Slip is “…a mixture of clay and water…” (Stokstad, p.108) There were two types of techniques that were used to paint kraters. The slip that is used to paint the krater is a glaze that is painted on to the krater. The terracotta clay was used to produce the krater. 515 BCE and its main purpose was as a “punch bowl during a symposium, a social gathering of rich and powerful men.” (Stokstad, p.108) The media used to produce this piece is clay and slip. The krater itself was made by Euxitheos and was painted by a different artist with the name of Euphronios. This krater is made from ceramic and stands at 18 inches tall. It is a calyx krater that has been decorated in the red-figure form. The figure shown above is a krater depicting the Death of Sarpedon.

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