<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><mads xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mads/" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mads/
mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">black-figure vase painting</topic></authority><related type="other"><topic>red-figure vase painting</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>black-figure vase paintings</topic></related><related type="other"><topic>Black-figure</topic></related><related type="broader"><topic>vase painting</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>Black-figure vase-painting</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>vase painting, black-figure</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Technique used on Ancient Greek pottery in which black decoration appears silhouetted on a red ground through painting and a two-stage firing process. In the process, a refined slip of clay, iron oxide, wood ash, and rain water was used to paint decorations on the object. Details were incised into the black figures or applied in purple or white pigment. It developed in Corinth ca. 720 BCE; the technique was later replaced by the more sophisticated red-figure vase painting.  ]]></note></mads>