A Lekythos in Six's Technique

"The vase illustrated here is an exceptionally well preserved Attic lekythos decorated in a special technique named after Jan Six, the scholar who first studied it in detail. The body of the vase is covered with black glaze, and the design is rendered in added colors, combined with parts in incision. The scene on the body represents a detail from a battle: a fully armed hoplite, his drawn sword dripping with blood, rushes past a fallen adversary. The vase is shown in Figures 1 and 2, and in color on the cover. The painting is by the hand of the Diosphos Painter, an artist of the late Archaic period. He and his companion, the Sappho Painter, 4 both work in black-figure and in Six's technique, chiefly on lekythoi. The Diosphos Painter is so named after an inscription on one of his small black-figure neckamphoras in the Cabinet des Medailles in Paris, with a representation of the birth of Dionysus.""--Page 24.Includes bibliographical reference