Terracotta kylix- band-cup (drinking cup) MET DP142292

Tleson (active around 555-535 BC) was an Attic potter and perhaps also a vase painter in the

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style. He was the son of the famous potter

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and brother of

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. His workshop apparently produced mostly

Little-master cups Little-master cups are a type of Attic black-figure cups, produced around the middle and third quarter of the sixth century BC. Their name is based on their fine small-format decoration. Little-master cups are later in origin than Siana cups, bu ...

. Most of his vases were painted by the Tleson Painter, whose real name is unknown, and whose conventional name is derived from Tleson. Based on the fact that vases known by that hand so far are only ever signed by Tleson,

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suggested that Tleson and the Tleson painter may be identical. There is no proof for this hypothesis. Some of Tleson's pots were painted by other artists, such as

Oltos Oltos was a Late Archaic Greek vase painter, active in Athens from 525 BC to 500 BC. About 150 works by him are known. Two pieces, a cup in Berlin ( Antikensammlung F 2264) and a cup in Tarquinia (Museo Nazionale Tarquiniese RC 6848), are sign ...

and the Centaur Painter.

Selected works

Where no painter is named, the vases were painted by the Tleson painter *Athens, Agora Museum :Fragment of a Little-master cup P 13349 *Athens, National Museum :''

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'' 502 • Fragment of a Little-master cup Acr. 613 • Fragment of a Little-master cup Acr. 1567 • Fragment of a Little-master cup Acr. 1570 • Fragment of a

Band cup Band cups are a form of ancient Greek Attic Little-master cups. The lip of a band cup is black and slightly concave. At the joint between vase body and foot, there is often a red ring. The external figural decoration is in the area of the handles ...

AP 501 *Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig :Cup BS 405 *Berlin,

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: Little-master cup F 1760 *Bonn, Akademisches Kunstmuseum :Little-master cup 53 *Boston, Museum of Fine Arts : Fragment of a Little-master cup 03.851 • Little-master cup 92.2655 • Cup 98.920 • Fragment of a Little-master cup F 357.2 *Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum : Fragment of a Little-master cup 495 *Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts : Little-master cup R 385 B • Little-master cup R 385 C *Bryn Mawr,

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: Fragment of a Little-master cup P 175 *Compiègne, Musée Vivenel : Little-master cup 1091 *Dresden,

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: Little-master cup ZV 2714 *Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität : Fragment of a Little-master cup 837 *Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität : Fragment of a Little-master cup 66 *Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität : Fragment of a Litt Fragment of a Little-master cup Fragment einer Kleinmeisterschale S 30 • Fragment of a Little-master cup S 31 *Izmir, Archaeologiocal Museum Izmir : Fragment of a Little-master cup 49 A *Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum : Little-master cup HC 1419 ''(Centaur Painter)'' *Leipzig, Antikenmuseum der Universität Leipzig : Little-master cup T 52 • Fragment of a cup T 433 *London,

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: Little-master cup 1867.5-8.946 • Little-master cup B 410 • Little-master cup B 411 • Cup B 420 • Cup B 421 *Malibu,

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: Little-master cup 76.AE.90 • Little-master cup 80.AE.99.3 *Manchester, City Art Gallery & Museum :Band cup 111H51 *Moscow,

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: Little-master cup *Munich,

: Little-master cup 2126 • Little-master cup 2127 • Little-master cup 2149 • Fragment of a Little-master cup 9413 ''(Painter unknown)'' • Fragment of a Little-master cup 9417 ''(Painter unknown)'' • Band cup SL 462 *Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale :Fragment of a cup 81338 ''(Oltos)'' • Little-master cup H 2528 • Little-master cup Stg 271 *New York,

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: Little-master cup 27.122.30 • Band cup GR 542 *Nicosia, Cyprus Museum : Little-master cup C 438 *Oxford, Ashmolean Museum : Fragment of a Little-master cup 1953.11 • Fragment of a Little-master cup 1953.12 • Little-master cup G 137.35 *Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Cabinet des Medailles : Little-master cup 317 *Paris, Musée National du Louvre : Little-master cup F 86 *Rome, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia : Little-master cup M 608 *St. Petersburg,

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: Little-master cup *Syracuse, Museo archeologico regionale Paolo Orsi : Little-master cup 43985 *Taranto, Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale : Little-master cup 4440 *Toledo,

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:Cup 1958.70 *Vatican,

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: Little-master cup 322 • Fragment of a band cup AST 345 *Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe :Band cup 147262 *Washington,

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: Little-master cup 42207 A ''(Painter unknown)'' *Würzburg, Martin-von-Wagner-Museum : Little-master cup L 409

Bibliography

* John D. Beazley: ''Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters'', Oxford 1956 * Berthold Fellmann: ''Zur Chronologie des Tleson Malers''. In: Vasenforschung und „Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum“. Standortbestimmung und Perspektiven, München 2002, p. 111-121.

External links

Dictionary of Art

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