# Tleson

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

* Athens, Agora Museum
    Fragment of a Little-master cup P 13349
* Athens, National Museum
    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
    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, Bryn Mawr College
    Fragment of a Little-master cup P 175
* Compiègne, Musée Vivenel
    Little-master cup 1091
* Dresden, Skulpturensammlung
    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, Heidelberg University
    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, 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 Museum
    Little-master cup 76.AE.90 • Little-master cup 80.AE.99.3
* Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery
    Band cup 111H51
* Moscow, State Historical Museum
    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
    Little-master cup 27.122.30 • Band cup GR 542
* Nicosia, Cyprus Museum
    Little-master cup C 438
* 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, BnF Museum
    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
    Little-master cup
* Syracuse, Museo archeologico regionale Paolo Orsi
    Little-master cup 43985
* Taranto, National Archaeological Museum of Taranto
    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
* Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
    Band cup 147262
* Washington, National Museum of Natural History
    Little-master cup 42207 A (Painter unknown)
* Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum
    Little-master cup L 409