Moscow Kremlin Museums:

Greece

Amphoriskos (?)
Greece, 2^nd c. B.C.
Terracotta; black-figure painting.
Came from the Department of Precious Metals of the USSR Cabinet in 1960.

The terracotta amphoriskos(?) is a small amphora decorated in the black-figure painting style. Its shoulder is adorned with two little leaves of ivy and a figurine of a rooster.
Pithos
Cyprus, 850–700 B.C.
Terracotta; painting in the Cypris “free” style – ornament of stripes and lines of grey and red-brown colours.
Presented by the President of the Republic of Cyprus Archbishop Makarios during his visit to the Armoury Chamber in 1971.
Pithos
Cyprus, 3rd c. B.C.
Terracotta; painting in the Cypris “free” style – ornament of red and black horizontal stripes, wavy lines and dashes.
Came from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1966.

The collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums is limited only to three pieces of antique ceramics that came to the museum by accident. These objects are without doubt of archaeological origin.

Here are the monuments from the Cyprus island, the ceramics art of which was developing parallel to the ceramics production in Greece. Restrained geometrical motifs that leave much of the surface blank – a so-called “free” style – feature these items. The monuments made in the Black Figure technique are distinct in the simplicity of stylistic devices and generality of images, in comparison with the pieces of the metropole, for example, the School of Athens. At the same time, they possess a certain freedom, a peculiar “boldness” of artistic manner.