Six's technique

Six's technique was a technique used by Attic black-figure vase painters first described by the Dutch scholar Jan Six in 1888. It involves laying on figures in white or red on a black surface and incising the details so that the black shows through. It was in regular use for the decoration of the whole vase, rather than for details as was the previous practice, by circa 530 BCE. The effect is similar to red-figure. Nikosthenes, Psiax and the Diosphos painter were amongst the early users of the technique and it was in use up until the mid-fifth century when it can be observed on a small number of oenochoe from the Haimon painter workshop.

References

*Jan Six. "A rare vase-technique", Journal of Hellenic Studies 30, pp 323-326

External links

* [http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~greekart/vase/h_ab3_e.html#4 Late Black Figure pottery]