Name vase

Image:Akhilleus Memnon Staatliche Antikensammlungen 1410.jpg|thumb|Vase Munich 1410, former owner, present location, find location, inscription, habitual potter, shape, and so on. For Athenian vases, the majority of such names were introduced by John D. Beazley, the first scholar to study them systematically; for South Italian vases, Arthur Dale Trendall played a similar role.
Important painters given a sobriquet based on a name vase include for example the Painter of Berlin A 34, the Nessos Painter, the Andokides Painter, the Antimenes Painter, the Antiphon Painter, the Berlin Painter, the Bryn Mawr Painter, and the Pistoxenos Painter.