( fl c. 505–c. 475 BC). Greek vase painter. He produced some of the finest examples of Attic Red-figure vase painting (see GREECE, ANCIENT, §V, 6(i)), but, since none of his preserved works is signed, he is named after the potter Kleophrades, son of Amasis, whose signature appears on an early, exceptionally large Red-figure cup (Paris, Bib. N., 535, 699). The signature ‘Epiktetos’ on a late pelike (Berlin, Antikenmus., 2170) is a modern forgery. Nonsense inscriptions appear on his early vases, and for long afterwards he generally only wrote either kalos or kale (never specifying a love name), or standard inscriptions on Panathenaic amphorae. Later, however, he began to label mythological characters, sometimes alluding to literary sources.

Part of the Vase painters family

• Kleophrades Painter
  • Greece, ancient, §V, 5(ii)(d): Black-figure pottery: Attic, c 520–c 480 BC
  • Greece, ancient, §V, 6(i)(b): Attic Red-figure pottery: Late Archaic
  • works
    • Greece, ancient, §V, 1(iii)(c): Pottery materials and techniques: Decorative techniques