Enhance your decor with a Black figure Kylix from Ancient Greece. In the pottery in Ancient Greece kylix (or cylix) is the most common type of wine-drinking cup. It has a broad, relatively shallow, body raised on a stem from a foot and usually two horizontal handles disposed symmetrically. The main alternative wine-cup shape was the kantharos, with a narrower and deeper cup and high vertical handles.
Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black figure style or black figure ceramic black-figure ceramic is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases. It was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries BC. Black figure pottery is easy to recognize because it features black sihlouette figure of people and events.
This Kylix shows Achilles Killing Penthesilea,Achilles steps to right, bearded, with long tresses, fully armed, high-crested helmet and short striped chiton, and has beaten down the Amazon queen Penthesilea on one knee, and plunges spear into her throat.
Net weight:0,6 kgr(1,33lbr), Height:10cm (3,9in) ,Diameter:20cm(7,8in)