Museum
Musée d'art et d'archéologie de Laon
Laon, France
Museum in Laon. 9 people in the register connected with it.
The Cypriot collection
more than 100 Cypriot objects, Bronze Age to Hellenistic, 'one of the richest collections of Cypriote antiquities in France'; the Laon chapter also counts 126 pieces from La Charlonie (2010)
History
- 1937Accepted the bequest of Paul Marguerite de La Charlonie, including the Cypriot antiquities, after the Louvre and the Musée Guimet had declined it.
LaonJoseph Eugène Paul Marguerite de la CharlonieMerrillees 2010
- 1987First catalogue of the Cypriot holding, in Decaudin's survey of Cypriot antiquities in French public collections.
- 1998Tsipopoulou published the Cypriot and Mycenaean pottery as Vases chypriotes et mycéniens du musée de Laon (SIMA 20 / Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 15).
- 2009Opening of the museum's new galleries, in which the Cypriot collection has a prominent place; the occasion for re-examining the collection.
- 2010Collective study 'La collection chypriote du musée municipal de Laon (Aisne)', Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 40: history by the curator Jorrand, La Charlonie by Merrillees, Bronze Age by Merrillees, Iron Age pottery by Fourrier, terracottas by Yon and Caubet, limestone sculpture by Hermary.
LaonCaroline JorrandRobert Stuart MerrilleesSabine FourrierMarguerite YonAnnie CaubetAntoine HermaryJorrand et al. 2010
People
9 peopleStaff and members · 8
- Antoinette J. Decaudinspecialist (1987–1987) · catalogued its collectionJorrand et al. 20101987
- Metaxia Tsipopoulouspecialist (1998–1998) · catalogued its collectionJorrand et al. 20101998
- Caroline Jorrandcurator (2009–2010) · conservateur (curator)Jorrand et al. 20102009
- Annie Caubetspecialist (2010–2010) · catalogued its collectionJorrand et al. 20102010
- Robert Stuart Merrilleesspecialist (2010–2010) · catalogued its collectionJorrand et al. 20102010
- Sabine Fourrierspecialist (2010–2010) · catalogued its collectionJorrand et al. 20102010
- Antoine Hermaryspecialist (2010–2010)Jorrand et al. 2010
- Marguerite Yonspecialist (2010–2010)Jorrand et al. 2010
Donors and lenders · 1
- Joseph Eugène Paul Marguerite de la Charloniedonor (from 1937) · legatee of his collection · bequeathed objectsMerrillees 20101937
Objects
Female figurine holding a bird (Archaic terracotta, Achna workshop)
37624via Joseph Eugène Paul Marguerite de la Charlonie1937Dissinger 2017, p. 314
Female figurine holding a bird (Archaic terracotta, Lapithos workshop)
37619via Joseph Eugène Paul Marguerite de la Charlonie1937Dissinger 2017, p. 316
Bichrome IV jug with waterfowl in free-field style, Cypro-Archaic I; Tsipopoulou 1998 no. 29
37.869via Joseph Eugène Paul Marguerite de la Charlonie1937Dissinger 2017, p. 342
Bichrome IV jug with possible waterfowl, Cypro-Archaic I; Tsipopoulou 1998 no. 30
37.870via Joseph Eugène Paul Marguerite de la Charlonie1937Dissinger 2017, p. 351
Cypro-Geometric clay tripod with hanging clay objects, cited as a parallel for the Skales finds
Sources
- 1.Caroline Jorrand, Robert Merrillees, Sabine Fourrier, Marguerite Yon et al. (2010). “La collection chypriote du musée municipal de Laon (Aisne)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 40. Online
- 2.R. Merrillees (2010). “Paul Marguerite de La Charlonie, collector and connoisseur”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 40. Online
- 3.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.
- 4.V. Karageorghis (1983). Palaepaphos-Skales: An Iron Age Cemetery in Cyprus.