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

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Where no painter is named, the vases were painted by the Tleson painter
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
Cup BS 405
Little-master cup F 1760
Little-master cup 53
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
Fragment of a Little-master cup 495
Little-master cup R 385 B • Little-master cup R 385 C
Fragment of a Little-master cup P 175
Little-master cup 1091
Little-master cup ZV 2714
Fragment of a Little-master cup 837
Fragment of a Little-master cup 66
Fragment of a Litt Fragment of a Little-master cup Fragment einer Kleinmeisterschale S 30 • Fragment of a Little-master cup S 31
Fragment of a Little-master cup 49 A
Little-master cup HC 1419 (Centaur Painter)
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
Little-master cup 76.AE.90 • Little-master cup 80.AE.99.3
Band cup 111H51
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
Fragment of a cup 81338 (Oltos) • Little-master cup H 2528 • Little-master cup Stg 271
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
Little-master cup 317
Little-master cup F 86
Little-master cup M 608
Little-master cup
Little-master cup 43985
Little-master cup 4440
Cup 1958.70
Little-master cup 322 • Fragment of a band cup AST 345
Band cup 147262
Little-master cup 42207 A (Painter unknown)
Little-master cup L 409

Bibliography

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  • 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.
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