Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Museum

Leeds Art Gallery

Leeds, United Kingdom

Museum in Leeds; part of Leeds Museums and Galleries. 2 people in the register connected with it.

The Cypriot collection

Held the Holmes Collection (from the Free Public Museum) after the museum passed to the Art Gallery Committee by 1892; six Cypriot vessels from Hollings reached LEEDM in 1988 (1988)

Reeve 2021

History

  1. 1888
    New Art Gallery opened in Leeds; the Holmes Collection was perhaps displayed there; Walter Harding was the driving force

    LeedsWalter HardingReeve 2021

  2. 1892
    By 1892 the Library Committee had given up the museum, which came under the Art Gallery Committee; its first report itemised the Holmes Collection

    LeedsReeve 2021

  3. 1946–1947
    Thomas E. Hollings gave (1946) and bequeathed (1947) English ceramics with 20 antiquities, six Cypriot, to Temple Newsam House

    LeedsThomas HollingsReeve 2021

  4. 1988
    The Hollings Cypriot vessels were transferred to Leeds Museum as LEEDM.D.1988.0001-.0007

    LeedsReeve 2021

People

2 people

Staff and members · 1

  • Walter Hardingfounder (1887–1889) · driving force behind the gallery opened 1888; led the 1889 sub-committee on the Holmes collectionReeve 20211887

Donors and lenders · 1

Objects

  • Six Cypriot vessels: Middle Cypriot White Painted and Red/Black slip juglets, two Cypro-Geometric White Painted juglets, Cypro-Archaic Bichrome amphora, Black on Red flask (inventory range .0001-.0007; .0005 is a kylix of other provenance)

    LEEDM.D.1988.0001-.0007via Thomas Hollings1946–1947Reeve 2021

Sources

  1. 1.Anna Holly Reeve (2021). “Ancient Cyprus in Leeds: Objects, Networks and Museums from 1870 to 1947”. PhD thesis, University of Leeds.