Female figurine of the Spedos variety

Female figurine with all the traits of the "Goulandris Master": lyre-shaped head with long triangular nose, markedly sloping shoulders, slim arms, small breasts set wide apart, incised waist, small pubic triangle, curvaceous buttocks, and the larger figurine of the collection. Traces of pigment on the chest and the back of the head, by which the coiffure of the figurine was indicated.

Apart from the "Goulandris Master", several other "masters" have been identified, who are usually named conventionally after the museum or the city which hosts characteristic works by them, after the excavator who brought them to light, or after the collector who possesses them. However, other researchers dismiss these views as predicated on the existence of principles, aesthetic conceptions and social structures that are not consistent with the picture we have of Cycladic society in the third millennium BC. They, therefore, refute the idea of one or more "masters" and attribute the indisputable similarities either to the existence of workshops or local traditions, or simply to the prevailing of specific artistic styles and trends in different periods.