Geometric III
Terracotta duck-shaped askos (flask with spout and handle over the back)
Shape of a duck. H. 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm)
Date
850 - 750 BC
Accession No.
74.51.840
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1885. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 1. pl. XCV.814, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 997, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Lund, John. 2015. A Study of the Circulation of Ceramics in Cyprus from the 3rd Century BC to the 3rd Century AD, Gösta Enbom Monographs, 5. no. 1699, pp. 150, 303, fig. 234, Bristol, CT: Aarhus University Press.