The most important workshop of ceramics during the 7th century B.C. was that of Corinth, both from the point of innovation and inventiveness that was apparent, and from the point of the spread of its vases,and consequently of its influence over other centres. In Corinth the transition from Geometric standards to the orientalizing took place quite early, obviously because the city had developed commercial activities and a great familiarization with oriental miniature art.The prevalence of the physiocratic tendencies found fertile ground in the cultured sense of miniature-art accuracy of the Corinthian potters. The technique that allowed the decoration of miniature-vases -such as the spherical aryballoi and the kotylai was an invention of the Corinthian potters and was called black-figure technique.In that the figure was drawn as a silhouette, but before the firing of the vase the details were incised by a sharp tool removing a thin layer of glaze at the same time.

Dimension: 12.9cm (H)