ATTRIBUTED TO THE TLESON PAINTER, CIRCA 545-535 B.C.

Details

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURED BAND-CUP
ATTRIBUTED TO THE TLESON PAINTER, CIRCA 545-535 B.C.
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) diameter, excluding handles

Provenance

with Holger Termer, Hamburg, acquired by 1981.
Dr. Manfred Zimmermann (1935-2011), Bremen, Germany, acquired by 1986; thence by descent to the current owner.

Literature

W. Hornbostel, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1986, p. 42, no. 5.
M. Steinhart, Töpferkunst und Meisterzeichnung: Attische Wein- und Ölgefässe aus der Sammlung Zimmermann, Mainz, 1996, pp. 29-31, no. 2.
B. Fellmann, "Zur Chronologie des Tleson Malers," in M. Bentz, ed., Vasenforschung und Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Standortbestimmung und Perspektiven, vol. I, Munich, 2002, p. 120, no. 38.
P. Heesen, Athenian Little-Master Cups, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 304, no. 389, pl. 106C-D.
F. Hildebrandt, Antike Bilderwelten: Was griechische Vasen erzählen, Darmstadt, 2017, pp. 34-36, fig. 28; p. 146, no. 28.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 16049.

Exhibited

Hamburg, BATIG Foyer Esplanade; Kiel, Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein Girozentrale; Bremen, Übersee-Museum, Aus der Glanzzeit Athens: Meisterwerke griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz, 29 May 1986-18 January 1987.
Bremen, Antikenmuseum im Schnoor, 2005-2018.

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Lot Essay

Heesen (op. cit.) assigns this cup to the Tleson Painter’s middle period and considered this a small cup within his oeuvre. According to the author (op. cit., p. 194), “The middle period of the Tleson Painter is perhaps the most interesting, since his work from this period can be divided into medium to large cups and small cups.” The small cups reveal an exchange between the Tleson Painter and the Centaur Painter, whereby the two artists shared the same designs and subjects to the extent where an individual hand can be difficult to decipher.

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