The flood of red-figure pottery and the immigration of vase painters first from Athens and then from Southern Italy led to a blossoming of Etruscan wares. Local styles of Etruscan red-figure pottery began around 480 BC and continued until about the early 3rd century BC.

This oinochoe (jug) is decorated in red-figure technique with three large female heads in profile, one on the neck, and two facing each other on the body. They are each wearing a sakkos, which in ancient Greece was a type of headscarf worn by women.

This distinctive decoration indicates that the vase was painted by the Populonia Painter of the Torcop Group of vase-painters from Caere. Beazley named this group of painters after a vase in Toronto (Tor), and a vase in Copenhagen (Cop).