Ionic vase painting was regional style of ancient Greek vase painting.
Ionia

Ionia

Ionia is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements...

 first becomes noticeable as a separate region within East Greek vase painting

East Greek vase painting

East Greek vase painting was a regional style of ancient Greek vase painting, produced in East Greece. In spite of the region's wealth, the pottery was rather unremarkable in comparison to other areas. The clay is red-brown to pink and often contains mica inclusions...

 during the final phase of the orientalising style, when the black-figure incision style spread from Northern Ionia throughout East Greece. In the later phase of the Wild Goat

Wild Goat

The wild goat is a widespread species of goat, with a distribution ranging from Europe and Asia Minor to central Asia and the Middle East. It is the ancestor of the domestic goat.-Social structure:...

 style, Northern Ionian artists imitated Corinthian vases, if rather poorly.

Ionia had been producing high quality pottery already since the 7th century BC. Since about 600 BC, the black.figure style was used to decorate all or part of vases. Apart from gradually developing local styles (e.g. at Clazomenae

Klazomenian vase painting

Klazomenian vase painting was a regional style of ancient Greek vase painting, belonging to the East Greek representations of that form of art....

, Ephesos, Miletus, Chios and Samos

Samian vase painting

Samian vase painting was a regional style of ancient Greek vase painting; it formed part of East Greek vase painting.Vases were produced on Samos since the Geometric period. At the Heraion of Samos, many Geometric vases were discovered, including high-footed kraters, kantharoi, kotyles, skyphoi and...

), especially northern Ionia developed a variety of distinctive styles, the locations of which cannot be asserted at present. Perfume vessels based on the Lydia

Lydia

Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkish provinces of Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian....

n lydion

Lydion

The Lydion was an ancient Greek vase shape. The shape may have been of Egyptian derivation.As indicated by its name, the lydion originated in Lydia, but was also adopted by potters in Greece. A small spherical perfume container, lacking handles, it was especially popular in East Greece...

shape, decorated merely with stripes, were widespread. Some of the images are highly original, such as a Scythian with a Bactria

Bactria

Bactria and also appears in the Zend Avesta as Bukhdi. It is the ancient name of a historical region located between south of the Amu Darya and west of the Indus River...

n camel, or a satyr

Satyr

In Greek mythology, satyrs are a troop of male companions of Pan and Dionysus — "satyresses" were a late invention of poets — that roamed the woods and mountains. In myths they are often associated with pipe-playing....

 with a ram. For some styles, the allocation to regions is highly disputed. Thus, the Northampton Group

Northampton Group

The Northampton Group was a stylistic group of ancient Greek amphorae in the black-figure style.With the exception of a single belly amphora, the vases of the Northampton Group are exclusively neck amphorae. Stylistically, they are very close to North Ionian vase painting. However, they were...

shows a strong Ionic influence but was probably produced in Italy, perhaps by Ionian immigrants.