Terracotta dog (?) figurine with suspension hole
Description: | Red Polished Ware pottery and its derivatives were manufactured in southern Cyprus throughout the Early Bronze Age and a good part of the Middle Bronze Age, a period of more than five hundred years. Potters of the Middle Cypriot period never attained the vivacity and originality seen in Early Cypriot Red Polished Ware works. H. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm) |
Period: | Middle Bronze Age I |
Date: | 1900 - 1800 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | From Cyprus |
References: | Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 60, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 5, pp. 20-21, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 20, pp. 26, 252, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.1293 |