In ancient Greece living artists did not begin to be widely celebrated until the fifth century B.C. Through inscriptions and other sources, however, the names of significant earlier masters are known, and scholarship has elucidated their achievements. Andokides was a potter active in Athens between about 540 and 510 B.C. Various types of evidence have led scholars to conclude that the change from the black-figure technique of vase painting to red-figure took place in Andokides' workshop about 530 B.C. The Bastis amphora, first lent to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1964, is the earliest preserved signed work by Andokides. Decorated in black-figure by a painter who has not been identified, both sides show a four-horse chariot proceeding to the right. On a later amphora in the Museum (acc. no. 63.11.6), Andokides incised his signature on the foot rather than drawing it on the body as here, and he collaborated with a red-figure painter and one, possibly two, black-figure painters for the decoration. In addition to its delicate proportions and fine execution, the Bastis amphora documents the beginnings of one of the most innovative Athenian artists.