An Attic Black-figured Band Cup, attributed to the Taleides Painter, signed by Taleides as Potter, circa 550-540 B.C.

with a dot and two circles in the reserved tondo, the body signed on each side "Taleides made (it)," a reserved encircling line below the band, palmettes flanking the handles, the details in added red.

Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, Auktion XXVI, Kunstwerke der Antike, October 5th, 1963, no. 100, pl. 32
Thomas T. Solley, Bloomington, Indiana (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, January 20th, 1967, no. 205, illus.)

John D. Beazley, Paralipomena, Oxford, 1971, p. 74
Pieter Heesen, Athenian Little-master Cups, in print, cat. no. 131, figs. 57a-b, 58b, pl. 42d
Beazley Archive Pottery Database, no. 350513

Repaired from one large and several smaller fragments with in-painting and some small areas of fill along some of break lines, two missing fragments appear to have been restored, one across rim above one handle and one to right of same handle, foot reattached, one palmette intact, two with a small loss to each, and the fourth missing its entire lower part, minor chips around foot.
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Pieteer Heesen writes in correspondence, "This is the only band-cup known by the potter Taleides, who also made one signed and four unsigned Siana cups and seven signed lip-cups (other signed pieces include an amphora, three oinochoai, a lekythos, loutrophoros and pyxis). Most of the signed pottery, if not all, were decorated by the Taleides Painter; this is certainly true for the band-cup."