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Cypriote & Classical Antiquities, scan 1

Book·1928·English

Cypriote & Classical Antiquities: Duplicates of the Cesnola & Other Collections, Part One (sale no. 2253)

The Anderson Galleries, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art

182 scanned pages, each shown beside its printed text, with 8 pages of plates and figures.

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Cypriote & Classical Antiquities: Duplicates of the Cesnola & Other Collections, Part One is the catalogue of sale no. 2253 at the Anderson Galleries, New York, held on 30 and 31 March 1928 by order of the trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A letter from the museum's president, Robert W. de Forest, dated 14 February 1928 and printed at the front, states that the museum bought the Cesnola Collection in 1874 and 1876, and that the trustees had decided to sell at auction, in March and April, objects that duplicated those on exhibition and were held in storage, to free space and place them with other museums and collectors.

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Its lots, numbered to 654, are mostly Cypriot: limestone sculpture of votaries, "temple boys", animals and portrait heads, Cypriot pottery from the Early Bronze Age to the Roman period, glass from Cyprus, terracottas, lamps, alabaster and bronzes. Greek, Etruscan and Roman pottery and sculpture and glass from the Julien Gréau collection are mixed in. For the collection as it was shown in the museum, see Myres's Handbook of the Cesnola Collection.

Sources

  • The Anderson Galleries 1928. Cypriote & Classical Antiquities: Duplicates of the Cesnola & Other Collections, Part One (sale no. 2253, 30–31 March 1928). New York: The Anderson Galleries, letter of R. W. de Forest and Order of Sale.

Contents

From the book’s own headings

  1. CONDITIONS OF SALEscan 6
  2. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUMscan 7
  3. ETRUSCAN TERRA COTTA ANTEFIXESscan 39
  4. HADRA AND CYPRIOTE POTTERYscan 119
  5. ANCIENT CYPRIOTE POTTERY OF THEscan 125
  6. EARLY BRONZE AND IRON AGESscan 125
  7. ARYBALLOS OF ANCIENT HAND MOLDED GLASSscan 152

Plates and figures

8 pages with pictures, in scan order

  1. scan 32
  2. scan 43
  3. scan 99
  4. scan 132
  5. scan 146
  6. scan 159
  7. scan 163
  8. scan 182

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The Anderson Galleries, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cypriote & Classical Antiquities: Duplicates of the Cesnola & Other Collections, Part One (sale no. 2253) (1928), Pl. 17 [scan 46]. Scan: Internet Archive, Public domain (Public Domain Mark). The Archive, ancientcyprus.com, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/anderson-cesnola-duplicates-1928/p/46 (accessed [date]).