The Little masters were a group of potters and vase painters who produced vases of the
Atticblack-figure style featuring well-done figures in miniature. They were active in
Athens approximately 560–530 BC.[1] They mainly produced
Little-master cups:
lip cups,
band cups, and
droop cups, but were not entirely limited to such shapes. The group includes:
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Further reading
John Beazley: Little-master Cups, in: Journal of Hellenic Studies 52 (1932) pp. 167–204.
John Beazley: Attic Black-figure Vase-Painting, Oxford 1956, pp. 159–197.
Dieter Metzler: Eine attische Kleinmeisterschale mit Töpferszenen in Karlsruhe, in:
Archäologischer Anzeiger (1969) pp. 138–152.
John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters, Oxford 1971, pp. 67–80.
Joan Tarlow Haldenstein: Little master cups. Studies in 6th century Attic black-figure vase painting, Dissertation University of Cincinnati 1975.
Rudolf Wachter: Drinking inscriptions on Attic little-master cups. A catalogue (AVI 3), in: Kadmos 42 (2003) pp. 141–189.
Peter Heesen: Drinking inscriptions on Attic little-master cups. Does size matter? A contribution to the AVI Project, in: Museum Helveticum 63 (2006) pp. 44–62.