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Lip Cup Fragment
Creator
TlesonPotter
All works by this person →Tleson worked as both a potter and a vase-painter in Athens from about 555 to 535 B.C., creating vases in the black-figure technique. He decorated only Little Master cups, a new, taller, elegant cup form. He is known from over sixty signed cups and others attributed to him on the basis of style. Tleson specialized in miniature figures of animals with a lot of added color, although many of his vase
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- about 540 B.C.
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek (Attic)
- Department
- Vessels
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Fragment from lower reserved zone of the cup, with part of an inscription. Trace of a black band above, and black zone below. Interior, black.
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