Tleson

thumb 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 == 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, 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