A white-ground gamikos (probably a lebes gamikos which used in marriage rites) depicting mythological animals including harpies, sphinxes, and gorgons. White-ground ware was fragile and generally reserved for special objects, such as small oil bottles or funerary pottery. It was produced from about 570 BC through the 400’s BC in Athens. The technique was possibly exported to Etruria in the central area of the Italian peninsula.

Louvre, Paris
Image Courtesy of Henri Sivonen ©2007