_6. Bœotian black-figured skyphos in the Polytechnion in Athens._
Blümner, _Athenische Mittheilungen_, XIV, 1889, p. 151.
[Illustration: Fig. 71. Pottery establishment
Blümner, _Athenische Mittheilungen_, XIV, 1889, p. 151]
The master of the pottery is sitting with a kylix in one hand, while with the other he is trying to beat a slave who is running off with three skyphoi. Three other skyphoi are on the ground, while a kantharos and a skyphos are near by on a shelf. Another workman is inspecting a skyphos he has just glazed; a paint pot and brush are on a low stand by his side. He takes no notice of a scene which is taking place close by, a man beating a slave suspended from the ceiling. The workmanship is very crude, and if it is a product of the pottery establishment which it depicts, it is a fair sample of the work we might expect from a place run on such methods!
_1-10 Votive tablets or pinakes found at Penteskuphia near Corinth, dating 650-550 B.C. (figs. 72-80). Nos. 73-78, 80 are in the Berlin Museum; Nos. 72, 79 in the Museum of the Louvre._
Antike Denkmäler, I, 1886, pl. 8, Nos. 1, 4, 12, 15, 19b, 21, 22, 26 (Furtwängler, Beschreibung der Vasensammlung zu Berlin, I, Nos. 608, 802, 616, 893, 909, 827, 611). Gazette archéologique, VI, 1880, p. 105 (1), p. 106 (1).
[Illustration: Figs. 72-73. Potters stoking the fire
The kilns are domed, and have three openings, one at the bottom for the fuel, one on the side for the insertion of the ware and to act as a spy-hole, and one at the top to let out the smoke and for the regulation of the draught. On figs. 72-79, the firemen are busy stoking the fire, and climbing to the top of the kiln to manipulate the draught-hole with a hooked implement; for the flames are seen emerging at the top, which means that heat is being wasted. Fig. 80 shows the inside of a kiln, in horizontal section, with two openings for the fire, each opening having two channels into the kiln. The vases should of course stand upright, but the painter naturally found it difficult to depict them in the right perspective looking at them from the top.
[Illustration: Figs. 74-79. Potters regulating draught
_Antike Denkmäler_, I, pl. 8, Nos. 4, 12, 1, 21, 22; _Gazette archéologique_, VI, p. 106.]