Tleson Facts for Kids

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, 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 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, City Art Gallery & Museum

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