Model of a chest

Model of a chest

Description:

The model is handmade. The lid is missing. The rectangular chest stands on four low rectangular feet, two of which are missing; one foot is restored. The rim is flat. In the middle of one side of the chest is a vertically pierced knob, just below the rim. In the middle of the other side, a long trapezoidal area is marked off with grooves; at its top, a small ledge projects from the rim of the chest, below which the chest wall is partially pierced horizontally.


H. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 480 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2126, p. 348, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1966. The Furniture of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. p. 73, fig. 383, London: Phaidon Press.Karageorghis, Vassos. 1996. "The Cypro-archaic period monsters, animals and miscellanea." The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus, Vol. 6. no. X.c.1, p. 82, pl. XLVI.9, Nicosia: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 259, p. 150, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.1757