Ancient Greek potter and possible vase-painter of the black-figure style
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
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
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
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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