Pamphaios

Pamphaios was an Attic pottery in the late 6th century BC

Pamphaios was the successor of Nikosthenes in the Athenian pottery workshop and thus the successor to one of the most influential and creative ceramist antiquity. Well- shortly before 510 BC, he took over the workshop nikostheneische and continued the tradition of his predecessor continued, as he continues to produced the typical products, the nikosthenische Amphora or the Nikosthenische Pyxis and Chalkidisierende shell. Sometimes he developed these forms even further. In contrast to Nikosthenes Pamphaios sat but much more on vase painter of the red-figure style, which replaced at this time the old black-figure style. He employed many of the painters of the Nikosthenes further, including well-known artists such as Oltos, Epictetus and the Nikosthenes painter.