Tleson (active around 555-535 BC) was an

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potter and perhaps also a vase painter in the

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style. He was the son of the famous potter Nearchos and brother of Ergoteles. His workshop apparently produced mostly Little-master cups. 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 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,

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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 AP 501 *Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig :Cup BS 405 *Berlin, Antikensammlung : Little-master cup F 1760 *Bonn,

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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 : Fragment of a Little-master cup 495 *Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium : 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,

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: Fragment of a Litt Fragment of a Little-master cup Fragment einer Kleinmeisterschale S 30 • Fragment of a Little-master cup S 31 *Izmir, İzmir Archaeological Museum : Fragment of a Little-master cup 49 A *Karlsruhe, Baden State Museum : Little-master cup HC 1419 ''(Centaur Painter)'' *Leipzig, Museum of Antiquities of Leipzig University : 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, J. Paul Getty Museum : Little-master cup 76.AE.90 • Little-master cup 80.AE.99.3 *Manchester,

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:Band cup 111H51 *Moscow,

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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,

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: Little-master cup 27.122.30 • Band cup GR 542 *Nicosia, Cyprus Museum : Little-master cup C 438 *Oxford,

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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,

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: 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, National Archaeological Museum of Taranto : Little-master cup 4440 *Toledo,

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:Cup 1958.70 *Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco : 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

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