Mixing up information:

Here's something from one site that has left me smiling. The writer on the website is trying to explain the difference between 'black figure' and 'red figure' design in ancient Greek pottery. I'm going to paste exactly what was written and see whether you are amused, as I was, by how the writer makes a complete contradiction:

There were two different types of pottery, black-figure and red-figure styles. The black-figure style had a black background with the designs looking red. The red-figure style took over in about 510 B.C. The red-figure style is the vise versa of the black-figure style. The background is red while the drawings are black.

Greek pottery was made by hand, so therefore a well made and well painted piece of pottery was more expensive. The making of a piece of pottery usually involved two people, the painter and the potter. The Greeks used the Black figure and Red figure method of making pottery. In the Black figure method the Greeks painted on red backgrounds. In the Red figure method they painted on black backgrounds.



http://www.nisd.net/coonww/Carlos_CoonWebFolder/Rome_Greece_Web/greece_art.htm
...and watch getting caught up in that 'vise versa.'