The lebes gamikos had a ritual use during weddings. Around the plastic protome at the edge, Peleus and Thetis are represented. It is the work of the Eretria painter, dated to ca. Ancient authors regularly associate the kantharos with Dionysos and his various rituals. Greeks generally believed that drinking wine straight was uncivilized.
Most decorated kylikes have a stem raising the cup's bowl up off the foot.
Decoration may occur on the outside walls of the kylix as well as in a circular area inside, known as the tondo. Here's a beautifully painted tondo . The lekythos commonly has an angular shoulder, a tall cylindrical body which rounds slightly at the bottom, and a foot. An important class of lekythoi consists of those with a white-ground decoration, used in funerary ritual. The white ground lekythoi often but not always have scenes of mourning.