Limestone bouquet of flowers - image 1

Classical

Limestone bouquet of flowers

The fragment is broken from a large figural sculpture, perhaps of a female figure. The flowers are of the lotus and perhaps of laurel. H.: 5 7/8 x 3 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. (14.9 x 8.9 x 8.6 cm)

Date

499 - 450 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2606

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • Sanctuary of Golgoi-Ayios Photios

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. XXVII.101, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1158, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 283, p. 218, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.