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C Painter
( fl c. 575–c. 555 BC). Greek vase painter and potter. Active in Athens, the C Painter (C for Corinthianizing) is the earliest known painter of the Siana cup (named after a village in Rhodes where the cups were first found), as well as of the lip-cup (with high-stemmed foot and offset lip) and the Merrythought cup (with nearly hemispherical bowl and knobbed wishbone handles). His work also includes skyphoi, lekanides, tripod-kothons and votive plates (for vase shapes see GREECE, ANCIENT, §V, 1(ii)(a) and fig. 71). Siana cups, however, formed his main production: about 140 cups and fragments have been attributed to him.
Part of the Vase painters family
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