CIRCA 550-500 B.C.

Chalcidian vases were produced in a Western Greek studio during the mid to late 6th century B.C. According to J. Boardman, Early Greek Vase Painting, p. 217, the name Chalcidian "is not a misnomer although it was first applied under the misconception that the pottery was made in homeland Chalcis (Euboea) because the inscriptions on some of the bases were in Chalcidian script. . . .The Chalcidian colony at Rhegion (Reggio) at the toe of Italy seems a likely source." The Phineas Painter and other Chalcidian painters produced vases with animals and monsters around a floral interlace of palmettes and buds, "they are the last worthy exponents of the animal frieze style which had heralded Orientalizing decoration on vases a hundred and fifty years earlier".