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{{Authority control Ancient Greek potters Artists of ancient Attica 6th-century BC Athenians
Tleson (active around 555-535 BC) was an Attic
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potter and perhaps also a vase painter in the black-figure
Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black-figure style or black-figure ceramic ( grc, , }), is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases. It was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE, although there are ...
style.
He was the son of the famous potter Nearchos and brother of Ergoteles.
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
Tleson (active around 555-535 BC) was an Attic potter and perhaps also a vase painter in the black-figure style.
He was the son of the famous potter Nearchos and brother of Ergoteles.
His workshop apparently produced mostly Little-master cups. M ...
, 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, John Beazley
Sir John Davidson Beazley, (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the Un ...
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
A centaur ( ; grc, κένταυρος, kéntauros; ), or occasionally hippocentaur, is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse.
Centaurs are thought of in many Greek myths as being ...
.
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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:'' Pyxis'' 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 AP 501
*Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig
:Cup BS 405
*Berlin, Antikensammlung
: Little-master cup F 1760
*Bonn, Akademisches Kunstmuseum
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: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
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: 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, Bryn Mawr College
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: Fragment of a Little-master cup P 175
*Compiègne, Musée Vivenel
: Little-master cup 1091
*Dresden, Albertinum
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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, British Museum
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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, J. Paul Getty Museum
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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, State Historical Museum
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: Little-master cup
*Munich, Antikensammlung
: 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, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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: Little-master cup 27.122.30 • Band cup GR 542
*Nicosia, Cyprus Museum
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: Little-master cup C 438
*Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
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: 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, Hermitage Museum
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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, Toledo Museum of Art
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:Cup 1958.70
*Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco
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: Little-master cup 322 • Fragment of a band cup AST 345
*Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
:Band cup 147262
*Washington, National Museum of Natural History
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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
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{{Authority control Ancient Greek potters Artists of ancient Attica 6th-century BC Athenians