Canosa vases

Funerary pottery of ancient Apulia

Ornamentally decorated "ladle" in the Canosa style, 4th century BC, private collection (Germany)

Canosa vases, also known as “Magenta wares," are a type of funerary pottery belonging to ancient Apulian vase painting. They were produced between 350 and 300 BC and designed exclusively for funerary use.

The distinguishing feature of Canosa vases are the water-soluble paints, which are not always fired onto the body, leaving the colors susceptible to damage. The pigments most commonly used on these funerary wares are blue, black, light purple, pink, and white. The heavy use of pink on many of these ceramics is how they got the nickname Magenta Wares. These would have been added to the pottery by adding white slip onto the ware and then adding the pigments on top.[1]

Popular shapes included volute kraters, kantharoi, oinochoai and askoi. A common motif were female figures, standing on a small pedestal. Additionally, decoration included applied plastic winged heads, gorgons and similar motifs. The paintings often depicted Nike, chariots, battle scenes, naiskoi and winged female figures. The main find locations of such vessels are Canosa (after which the vases are now named), Arpi and Ordona.

## See also

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* Ancient Greek funerary vases

## References

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1. ^ Scott, David A.; Schilling, Michael (1991). "The Pigments of the Canosa Vases: A Technical Note". Journal of the American Institute for Conservation. 30 (1): 35–40\. doi:10.2307/3179516. ISSN 0197-1360.

## Bibliography

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* Rolf Hurschmann: Canosiner Vasen, in: Der Neue Pauly 2 (1997), Col. 965f.

## External links

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Ancient Greek vase painting

Techniques|

* Three-phase firing
* Bilingual
* White-ground
* Black-glazed Ware
* West Slope Ware

| Black-figure|

* Six's

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Red-figure|

* Kerch

Stylistic periods|

* Sub-Mycenaean
* Protogeometric
* Geometric
* Orientalizing

Stylistic regions|

* Argive
* Attic
* Chalkidian (Pseudo-Chalkidian)
* Cycladic
* Euboean
* Laconian
* Thessalian

| East Greek|

* Ionic
* Klazomenian
* Rhodian
* Samian
* Wild Goat
* Caeretan hydria

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South Italian|

* Lucanian
* Paestan
* Campanian

| Apulian|

* Canosa vases
* Gnathia vases

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Sicilian|

* Centuripe ware

Boeotian|

* Kabiria Group

Etruscan|

* Pontic Group

Painters

List of Greek vase painters

Scholars|

* John Beazley
* Adolf Furtwangler

Special topics|

* Corpus vasorum antiquorum
* East Greek Bird Bowl
* Hadra vase
* Kalos inscription
* Name vase

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