I rarely make it to this
part of the
forum, so apologies for such a late response. One book I have is not on
Peter's list and it is:
Athenian Vase Construction: A Potters Analysis by Tony Schreiber, published in 1999 by the J. Paul
Getty Museum.
It is a great book on
types and construction, maybe not so much on the specifics you are looking for. It does have detailed specifics of
pottery types, as well as how they were decorated. I do think you would like it if you have access to get it from a
library or something. I made a
Kylix once that never got finished because I realized I was not a painter and never got far enough to figure out how to glaze it before I knocked it off the table and into a million pieces. The basic
kylix I was quite proud of. But it made me realize that
pottery shops probably
had the potters and the painters as two separate skill sets. There are simple Greek
pottery painting styles that is what I may have ended up doing if I hadn't destroyed it. But I was kind of fixated on the pictorial stuff as on your beautiful examples. Owning some Greek
pottery is high on my list of things I would buy if I ever win the lottery, I just love it.
And a great book on death rituals I have is:
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical
Antiquity (Key
Themes in Ancient
History) by
Ian Morris,
Cambridge University Press, 1992. I can't find it at the moment and it has been a while, but it is pretty
good and a scientific view as seen via archaeology. If I can locate it, I will look and give you some more info.
Here is a pic of that
kylix when it was
still "wet."
Regards,
Virgil