Enhance your decor with a Black figure Kylix from Ancient Greece. In the pottery in Ancient Greece kylix (or cylix) is the most common type of wine-drinking cup. It has a broad, relatively shallow, body raised on a stem from a foot and usually two horizontal handles disposed symmetrically. Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black figure style or black figure ceramic black-figure ceramic is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases. It was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries BC. Black figure pottery is easy to recognize because it features black sihlouette figure of people and events. This Kylix shows Triptolemus with Goddess Demeter,and her daughter Persefone (on the other side).In Greek mythology, Triptolemus is a figure connected with the goddess Demeter of the Eleusinian Mysteries. He was either a mortal prince, the eldest son of King Celeus of Eleusis, or, according to Pseudo-Apollodorus, the son of Gaia and Oceanus.