Definition of "red-figured" [red-figured]

• Bearing or marked with red figures: specifically noting the class of Greek pottery bearing red figures or ornament on a solid black ground, which succeeded the archaic black-figured pottery about the second quarter of the fifth century b. c., and includes the vases of the highest artistic type. See vase, and cuts under Poseidon, psykter, and pyxis.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In a connecting corridor in the exhibition, entitled "Graphic Mythologies," his "Nessus and Dejanira" 1920, for example, is aligned with painted red-figured and white-ground Greek funerary jars and an incised, bronze Etruscan mirror to show how the subtle economy of means that marked Picasso's invigorated and elegant new linear style owed as much to the classical past as did his painted evocations of ancient sculptures."
• "Sotheby's An Attic red-figured hydria, attributed to the Marsyas Painter"
• "It was a relief to be taken into a sitting room where there was a little more light, the fawn, red-figured velvet curtains held back by loops of brown braid, and the blinds behind them raised perhaps six inches."