Kerch2
(kɜːtʃ)
Also Kertch.
The name of a town in the Crimea used attrib. to designate a type of ancient red-figured Greek pottery found there.
| 1936 G. M. A. Richter Red-Figured Athenian Vases I. vii. 213 (heading) Kerch style... With the Kerch period we reach the last phase of Athenian red-figured pottery. Ibid. 214 Kerch vases have been found at Alexandria. 1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Cont. Pott. & Porc. 412/2 In the Greek decadence, popular vases of so-called ‘Kertch’ ware, from the name of the town where they have been found, were exported to South Russia. 1965 J. V. Noble Techniques Painted Attic Pott. (1966) iii. 64 Attic chous in the Kerch style, mid fourth century b.c., in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |