He worked in both Corinth and Athens and is recognizable by his style, with great freedom of posture and a unique shading of figures.

The vase differs in its two sides; both represent the Gigantomachy, the fight between the Giants, Gaïa's sons and the Olympian gods, accompanied by Herakles.

The first side is much more elaborated than the second one, leading specialists to believe it might be a reproduction of the Gigantomachy of Phidias depicted inside the shield of the Parthenon Athena.

On the less intricate B side, a reproduction of the shield, is the rest of that Gigantomachy scene, with Ares and Aphrodite on a chair in the middle.

Representations of Gigantomachy, Centauromachy, or Amazonomachy were quite common during the High Classical Period: depictions of the Olympian gods triumphing over outsider societies were a metaphor of the Athenian victory over the Persians, and their subsequent supremacy over Greece.