Tleson
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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.
Tleson (active around 555-535 BC) was an Attic
Attica
Attica is a historical region of Greece, containing Athens, the current capital of Greece. The historical region is centered on the Attic peninsula, which projects into the Aegean Sea...
potter and perhaps also a vase painter in the black-figure style.
He was the son of the famous potter Nearchos
Nearchos (painter)
Nearchos was an Attic potter and vase painter of the black figure style, active in Athens circa 570 to 555 BC.In some stylistic terms, especially his fine drawings, Nearchos seems closely connected to the Painter of Acropolis 606. Unlike his comteporaries, he achieved figures with a striking sense...
and brother of Ergoteles
Ergoteles (potter)
Ergoteles was a Greek potter, active in Athens around the middle of the 6th century BC. He was the son of the famous potter Nearchos and the brother of Tleson.Three signed Little-master cups by him are known:* Berlin, Antikensammlung F 1758...
.
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
John Beazley
Sir John Davidson Beazley was an English classical scholar.Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Beazley attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a close friend of the poet James Elroy Flecker. After graduating in 1907, Beazley was a student and tutor in Classics at Christ Church, and in 1925 he...
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
Oltos was a Late Archaic Greek vase painter, active in Athens. From the time between 525 BC and 500 BC, about 150 works by him are known. Two pieces, a cup in Berlin and a cup in Tarquinia , are signed by him as painter.Oltos is thought to have begun his career in the workshop of the potter...
and the Centaur Painter.
Selected works
Where no painter is named, the vases were painted by the Tlseon painter- Athens, Agora Museum
- Fragment of a Little-master cup P 13349
- Athens, National MuseumNational Archaeological Museum of AthensThe National Archaeological Museum in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity. It is considered one of the great museums in the world and contains the richest collection of artifacts from Greek...
- Athens, National Museum
- PyxisPyxisPyxis is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for a mariner's compass...
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 cupBand cupBand 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 decaration is in the area of the handles, often framed by palmettes. Internal images and...
AP 501- Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig
- Cup BS 405
- Berlin, AntikensammlungAntikensammlung BerlinThe Antikensammlung Berlin is one of the most important collections of classical art in the world, now held in the Altes Museum and Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany. It contains thousands of ancient archaeological artefacts from the ancient Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Cypriot civilizations...
- Berlin, Antikensammlung
- Little-master cup F 1760
- Bonn, Akademisches KunstmuseumAkademisches KunstmuseumAkademisches Kunstmuseum is an art museum in Bonn, Germany. It is the oldest museum in Bonn and houses the antique collection of the University of Bonn with more than 500 antique statues and reliefs, and over 2,000 originals...
- 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, Bryn Mawr CollegeBryn Mawr CollegeBryn Mawr College is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia. The name "Bryn Mawr" means "big hill" in Welsh....
- Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr College
- Fragment of a Little-master cup P 175
- Compiègne, Musée Vivenel
- Little-master cup 1091
- Dresden, Albertinum
- 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 MuseumBritish MuseumThe British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
- London, British Museum
- 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 MuseumJ. Paul Getty MuseumThe J. Paul Getty Museum, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is an art museum. It has two locations, one at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, and one at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California...
- 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
- Moskow, State Historical MuseumState Historical MuseumThe State Historical Museum of Russia is a museum of Russian history wedged between Red Square and Manege Square in Moscow. Its exhibitions range from relics of the prehistoric tribes inhabiting present-day Russia, through priceless artworks acquired by members of the Romanov dynasty...
- Moskow, State Historical Museum
- Little-master cup
- Munich, AntikensammlungStaatliche AntikensammlungenThe Staatliche Antikensammlungen in the Kunstareal of Munich is a museum for the Bavarian state's antique collections for Greek, Etruscan and Roman art. The Bavarian state collection of Ancient Egyptian art is traditionally placed in its own museum...
- 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 ArtMetropolitan Museum of ArtThe Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Little-master cup 27.122.30 • Band cup GR 542
- Nicosia, Cyprus MuseumCyprus MuseumThe Cyprus Museum is the oldest and largest archaeological museum in Cyprus.The museum houses artefacts discovered during numerous excavations on the island. The museum is home to the most extensive collection of Cypriot antiquities in the world and is located on Museum Street in central Nicosia...
- Nicosia, Cyprus Museum
- Little-master cup C 438
- Oxford, Ashmolean MuseumAshmolean MuseumThe Ashmolean Museum on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum...
- 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 LouvreLouvreThe Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...
- Paris, Musée National du Louvre
- Little-master cup F 86
- Rome, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia
- Little-master cup M 608
- St. Petersburg, Hermitage MuseumHermitage MuseumThe State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been opened to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display,...
- St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum
- Little-master cup
- Syracuse, Museo Archelogico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- Little-master cup 43985
- Taranto, Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
- Little-master cup 4440
- Toledo, Toledo Museum of ArtToledo Museum of ArtThe Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio, United States. The museum was founded by Toledo glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901, and moved to its present location, a Greek revival building designed by Edward B....
- Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art
- 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, National Museum of Natural HistoryNational Museum of Natural HistoryThe National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. Admission is free and the museum is open 364 days a year....
- Washington, National Museum of Natural History
- Little-master cup 42207 A (Painter unknown)
- Würzburg, Martin-von-Wagner-Museum
- Little-master cup L 409