What is kamares style?

Kamares Ware is a style of Minoan pottery characterized by its floral and/or geometric designs. painted on top of a black slip which covers the whole vessel. The style received its name from. the Kamares cave located on the southern slope of Mount Ida.

Who made Kamares Ware?

Minoan pottery
Kamares wares are a distinctive type of Minoan pottery produced in Crete during the Minoan period, dating to MM IA (ca. 2100 BCE). By the LM IA period (ca. 1450), or the end of the First Palace Period, these wares decline in distribution and “vitality”.

What did Minoans use vases for?

The wares themselves were beaked jugs, cups, pyxides (or small boxes), chalices, pithoi (very large hand-made vases, sometimes over 1.7m high, used for storing oil, wine and grain, elaborately decorated and often inscribed with Linear A describing their contents) with occasional fruit stands, craters and rhytons ( …

Where was Kamares Ware produced?

Minoan Crete
The pottery we see in this photograph is called Kamares Ware, and it was the first fine, mass-produced and widely-traded pottery produced on Minoan Crete, dating to the Middle Minoan era (1900-1700 B.C.E.).

Where are the Kamares vases in Crete located?

Kamares vases in Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Kamares wares are a distinctive type of Minoan pottery produced in Crete during the Minoan period, dating to MM IA (ca. 2100 BCE).

What kind of pottery was Kamares ware made of?

Kamares ware jug. Kamares vases in Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Kamares wares are a distinctive type of Minoan pottery produced in Crete during the Minoan period, dating to MM IA (ca. 2100 BCE). By the LM IA period (ca. 1450), or the end of the First Palace Period, these wares decline in distribution and “vitality”.

Why was Kamares ware called Eggshell Ware?

This was a departure from earlier Early Minoan pottery which merely added dark abstract designs to the buff background color of the clay. Perhaps the most remarkable type of Kamares ware is referred to as eggshell ware, named for the extreme thinness of the vessel walls.

When did the Kamares ware start to decline?

By the LM IA period (ca. 1450), or the end of the First Palace Period, these wares decline in distribution and “vitality”. They have traditionally been interpreted as a prestige artifact, possibly used as an elite table-ware.