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This jar for holding oil is almost two and half thousand years old.
This style of Greek Pottery is called “red figure painting.” The potter created the image by leaving the the reddish-orange clay unpainted where the picture was to be - everything around was painted black.
Read more about this flask from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website here.
Read more about Red-Figure Painting here.