Terracotta jug

Terracotta jug

Description:

Oinochoe of yellowish clay and bands of polychrome ornament.



The painted floral decoration continues the tradition of Cypriot pottery of the Classical period.


6 9/16in. (16.7cm)

Period:

Hellenistic

Date:

310 - 30 BC

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. CXXXVI.993, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 952, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 130, 270, pl. 110b, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.Vessberg, Olof and Alfred Wesholm. 1956. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Vol. 4, Pt. 3. p. 60, fig. 23:8, Stockholm: Håkan Ohlssons Boktryckeri.

Accession Number:

74.51.430