 The usually very high-quality products of Laconian vase painting are among the most significant Greek vases.There are around eighty-one vases or fragments of Laconian red-figure vase painting, produced from c.430 for thirty to forty years.The majority of examples were found by Konstantinos Rhomaios at a Laconian settlement at Analipsis hill near Vourvoura during surface survey in 1899-1900, and then in excavations in the undertaken in early 1950s.