( fl c. 410–c. 400 BC). Greek vase painters. The five White-ground lekythoi painted with matt colours attributed to this ‘group’ apparently come from the same Athenian workshop and represent the work of one artist rather than several, since their technical and stylistic peculiarities set them apart from all other examples of this shape. These features include: huge size (h. 680–1100 mm), which gives the group its name; a separate mouth; the absence of a bottom; a White ground even on areas normally painted black; a modified system of ornamentation (no maeander above the picture); and different patterns (e.g. a wreath of leaves) on the shoulder. They suggest that the vases imitate the marble lekythoi being produced in Athens at that time as funerary monuments.

Part of the Vase painters family