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This animated presentation published by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts provides an easily understood explanation of the technique used by ancient artisans to create Attic Black pottery utilizing red-figure and black-figure painting techniques.

Greek potters developed a complicated process for collecting and refining the clay, using special glazes, and using a multi-phase procedure for kiln-processing the intricately painted vases and other pottery created by the renowned potters of Kerameikos (from which the modern-day term "ceramics" derives) in Athens.

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