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Kerch style.
Term formerly applied to a group of 4th-century BC Attic vases found near the Crimean town of KERCH (Ancient Panticapeum) in the later 19th century. It is, however, ill-defined and often confusing: first coined by Furtwängler, it was subsequently divided by Schefold (see 1930, 1934) into early, middle and late phases and the vases attributed to several different artists. Even so, it is still sometimes applied to Attic vases that are clearly later than those by the MEIDIAS PAINTER (see under VASE PAINTERS, §II), but whose exact dates and attribution are uncertain. In general, modern study tends to focus instead on the personal styles of the most outstanding individual late Attic Red-figure artists.
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