Nikosthenes was a potter of Greek black- and red-figure pottery in the time window 550–510 BC.

Identification of the products of the workshop are based primarily on the large number (133) vases signed by Nikosthenes epoiesen (Niksothenes made me) and similar variants.

In 1999, V. Tosto proposed that the workshop employed a small handful of assistants and temporary workers around Nikosthenes, who worked as both painter and potter.

[7] The workshop seems to have passed into the hands of his partner, Pamphaios,[1] somewhere between 505 and 500 BC and continued under his direction for a number of years before it disappeared at about 490.

It is possible that there was a connection with the Andokides workshop which produce very high quality vases in small quantities.