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Centuripe ware, or East Sicilian polychrome ware, or the Centuripe Class of vase, is a type of polychrome Sicilian vase painting from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. It is rare, with only some 50 examples known. They have been described, arguably rather unjustly, as "smothered in ornamental colors and shaped too elaborately", an example of Hellenistic "Middle-class taste [that] was often cloying and hideous, sometimes appealing."[1]
The class is named after its first and main find location, Centuripe in Sicily; most other finds are also in Sicily, especially at Morgantina. There were probably a number of workshops in eastern Sicily making such wares.[2] The painted vases were usually pyxides, lebetes and lekanes in their shapes.[3] Centuripe wares are among the last vases with significant figurative painting in the long tradition of the pottery of Ancient Greece.[4]
- ^ Cooke, 156
- ^ Stone, 135
- ^ Stone, 136
- ^ Hurwit, 15