Terracotta table

Terracotta table

Description:

This is one of three known Cypriot models of tables. The rectangular top is supported on three legs, a convention familiar from the Aegean region and the Near East as well. The checkerboard pattern on the top is interesting; it recalls the shrouds of Attic geometric funerary vases and raises the question whether these tables might have been used as biers.


H. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 480 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

References:

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1894. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 2. pl. XIV.111, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1895. The Terracottas and Pottery of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 4 and 15. no. 540, p. 44, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2124, p. 348, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1926. Ancient Furniture: A History of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Furniture. pp. 83-4, n. 1, fig. 200, Oxford: Clarendon Press.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1966. The Furniture of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. p. 67, fig. 345, London: Phaidon Press.Baker, Hollis S. 1966. Furniture in the Ancient World: Origins and Evolution, 3100-475 B.C.. p. 258, fig. 405, New York: Macmillan Co.Karageorghis, Vassos. 1996. "The Cypro-archaic period monsters, animals and miscellanea." The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus, Vol. 6. no. X.a.2, p. 81, pl. XLVI.2, Nicosia: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 266, p. 162-63, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 261, p. 151, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.1790