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. 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, John Beazley 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
- Fragment of a Little-master cup P 13349
- 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
- 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, Muses Royaux des Beaux-Arts
- Little-master cup R 385 B Little-master cup R 385 C
- Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr College
- Fragment of a Little-master cup P 175
- Little-master cup 1091
- Little-master cup ZV 2714
- Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitt
- Fragment of a Little-master cup 837
- Gttingen, Georg-August-Universitt
- Fragment of a Little-master cup 66
- Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitt
- 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 Universitt Leipzig
- Little-master cup T 52 Fragment of a cup T 433
- 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, City Art Gallery & Museum
- Band cup 111H51
- Moscow, State Historical Museum
- Little-master cup
- 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
- Little-master cup 27.122.30 Band cup GR 542
- Little-master cup C 438
- 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, Muse National du Louvre
- Little-master cup F 86
- Rome, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia
- Little-master cup M 608
- St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum
- 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
- Cup 1958.70
- Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco
- Little-master cup 322 Fragment of a band cup AST 345
- Band cup 147262
- Washington, National Museum of Natural History
- Little-master cup 42207 A (Painter unknown)
- Wrzburg, 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, Mnchen 2002, p.111-121.
External links
- Dictionary of Art
- Short biography Getty Museum