white-ground

white-ground
/hwuyt"grownd', wuyt"-/, adj.
pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries B.C., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.

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