Two important early 4th-century vase-painters were the Pronomos Painter and the Talos Painter. Though the draughtsmanship of their pieces is particularly gifted, it is still more interesting for the light it throws on mythology, cults, and the theatre. The occasional scenes of pomp and circumstance seem inspired by the major wall-painters of the time: for instance Parrhasius or Zeuxis. The best of the cup painters is the Meleager Painter, who surrounds the tondi of his cups with crowns of ivy. These tondi usually show lone figures of gods and heroes.

Of the many potters working in this period we can single out for mention Xenophantus (who signs himself 'Athenian'). It was he who decorated a large squat lekythos from Kerch with figures in bas-relief. This use of relief on pots is obviously inspired by the metal vessels with repousse work that were so fashionable at this time.

The Kerch style. Some fifty years before Attic red-figure pottery came to an end, a style that has been named after the Crimean city of Kerch made its debut. Kerch is the classical Panticapaeum, and many pots of this type have been discovered there. (The Kerch style died with red-figure pottery itself). The shapes most commonly found are the pelike, the lekanis, the lebes gamikos, and the krater. As for the subjects, they generally have to do with mythological beings popular among the peoples of the Black Sea: for instance, griffins, Arimaspians, and Amazons.