About 150 vessels and fragments have been attributed to the Kleophrades Painter. Most of these are in the red-figure (red-figure pottery) style (that is, red figures are painted on a black ground). Several black-figure (black-figure pottery) (black figures painted on a red ground) “Panathenaic” vessels (ceremonial vessels, used during the Panathenaic Festivals held once every four years on the Athenian Acropolis) have also been attributed to him. Some of the red-figure vase paintings frequently attributed to the Kleophrades Painter include a cup in Paris; an amphora, now at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen in Munich, with “Dionysus, Maenads and Satyrs”; a hydria (water jar) now in Naples, with the “Iliupersis” (“Sack of Troy”); two calyx kraters (chalice-bowls), one at Tarquinia (Italy), one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, with “Youths Arming.”

The Kleophrades Painter decorated large vessels in a great variety of shapes. The subjects he painted were among those most popular during his time: athletic scenes, mythological epics of Theseus, Heracles, and Dionysus. His work is praised for strength of design, pathos, and dramatic intensity.