8 in. (20.3 cm.) diameter, excluding handles

Herbert James Powell Bomford (1896-1979), London.
The Property of H.J.P. Bomford, Esq.; Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1973, lot 139.

K. Hamma, ed., The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, San Bernardino, 1989, p. 25, no. 9.
T.H. Carpenter, et al., Beazley Addenda, Second Edition, Oxford, 1989, p. 402.
B. Fellmann, “Zur Chronologie des Tleson Malers,“ in M. Bentz, ed., Vasenforschung und Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum:Standortbestimmung und Perspektiven, Berlin, 2002, p. 115, no. 31, app. I.11.
A.J. Clark, “Some Practical Aspects of Attic Black-figured Olpai and Oinochoai,” in A. Tsingarida, ed., Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Brussels, 2009, p. 97, tb. 2.
P. Heesen, Athenian Little-Master Cups, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 298, no. 319, pl. 91c-d.
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 3397.
Attic Vase Inscriptions Database no. 4801.

San Bernardino and Northridge, University Art Galleries, California State University, The Dechter Collection of Greek Vases, 5 May 1989-30 March 1990.

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Each side of this cup features the Greek inscription, "Tleson son of Nearchos made me” as is typical of works made by Tleson. According to J. Boardman (p. 60, Athenian Black Figure Vases), "Tleson is the classic Little Master, no doubt painter and potter, and always naming his father, the painter Nearchos, in his signatures."