Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

The catalogue lists 160 Cypriot art objects registered in Hungary, mostly in the Museum of Fine Arts (excluding Roman lamps and glass catalogued elsewhere, and about two dozen unpublished coins in the Hungarian National Museum) (1996)

Csornay-Caprez 2000

1. 1878–1879
   Count Ferenc Zichy is said (by undocumented Zichy family recollection) to have obtained the bulk of what became the Zichy Collection in Cyprus on a joint visit with Austen Henry Layard; the catalogue suggests 1878-9 as the most probable date.

   CyprusFerenc Szerafin ZichyAusten Henry LayardCsornay-Caprez 2000

2. 1879
   The Hungarian National Museum bought from an art dealer, mixed with Roman objects, four spearheads (formerly called 'Csorvás swords', Nos. 125-128) of Cypriot type; the Csorvás provenance is judged fictitious. Nos. 125-128 are described as still in the Hungarian National Museum.

   Csornay-Caprez 2000

3. 1891
   The Hungarian National Museum bought from Max Ohnefalsch-Richter a set of bronzes (Nos. 129-150), probably from a Bronze Age cemetery at Ayia Paraskevi; transferred to the Museum of Fine Arts in 1991.

   Ayia ParaskeviMax Ohnefalsch-RichterCsornay-Caprez 2000

4. 1911
   Dr. S. Saáry bought four White Painted jugs (Nos. 17, 24, 27, 50) in Volosca (Opatija), labelled by the dealer as a 'find of Grado'; the decoration points to Central Cyprus.

   Volosca (Opatija)Dr. S. SaáryCsornay-Caprez 2000

5. 1914
   Purchased from the Munich dealer Paul Arndt, including the Base Ring clay idol No. 67 reportedly found at Alambra, which Arndt had acquired from Gaston Feuardent.

   AlambraPaul Julius ArndtGaston Louis FeuardentCsornay-Caprez 2000

6. 1934
   Under the 1934 Museums' Act, Zichy items from the Hungarian National Museum and the Museum of Applied Arts were transferred to the Museum of Fine Arts, which became the central collection of ancient art discovered outside Hungary.

   Csornay-Caprez 2000

7. 1948
   Purchased the surviving Zichy Collection pieces from Count Zichy's heiress, Mrs. György Széchenyi.

   Anasztázia Széchenyi (née Zichy)Csornay-Caprez 2000

8. 1952
   The András Jósa Museum, Nyíregyháza, passed the four Saáry White Painted jugs to the Museum of Fine Arts.

   NyíregyházaCsornay-Caprez 2000

9. 1959
   Bought a terracotta female tambourine-player (CA II, probably Cyprus, SzM 59.1.A, No. 116) from Antal Géber.

   Antal GéberCsornay-Caprez 2000, No. 116

10. 1984–1990
    Acquired Cypriot sculpture and terracottas (SzM 84.243.A, 90.47-90.51) from the Rudnyánszky Collection.

    Rudnyánszky CollectionCsornay-Caprez 2000, Nos. 104

11. 1991
    Bronzes bought from Ohnefalsch-Richter in 1891 transferred from the Hungarian National Museum to the Museum of Fine Arts.

    Max Ohnefalsch-RichterCsornay-Caprez 2000

12. 1996–2000
    Boldizsár Csornay-Caprez's Cypriote Antiquities (Monumenta Antiquitatis extra Fines Hungariae Reperta 6) published, 160 items; introduction dated July 1996; research aided by a Hungarian-Cypriote inter-state scholarship, CAARI and the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus.

    Boldizsár Csornay-CaprezJános György SzilágyiAndrás RázsóMargit SzabadosCsornay-Caprez 2000

• Base Ring II bird-face female figurine holding an offering, reportedly from Alambra

  SzM T.12from Alambravia Paul Julius Arndt1914Csornay-Caprez 2000, cat. 67

• Wall-bracket (cat. 103)

  SzM T.16via Paul Julius Arndt1914Csornay-Caprez 2000

• Fragmentary diadem of a large figurine (cat. 122), ex Gréau, De Clercq

  SzM T.599via Paul Julius Arndt1914Csornay-Caprez 2000

• White Painted bottle (cat. 16)

  SzM T.681via Loránd Basch1948Csornay-Caprez 2000, No. 16

• White Slip II hemispherical bowl (cat. 57)

  SzM T.682via Loránd Basch1948Csornay-Caprez 2000, No. 57

• Limestone Mother with Child (late-archaic kourotrophos fragment, cat. 123)

  SzM 50.99via Ferenc Szerafin ZichyCsornay-Caprez 2000, cat. 123

• Terracotta female tambourine-player (CA II, cat. 116)

  SzM 59.1.Avia Antal Géber1959Csornay-Caprez 2000, No. 116

• Female lyre-player (cat. 110)

  SzM 84.243.Avia Rudnyánszky Collection1984Csornay-Caprez 2000, No. 110

• Fragmentary statue with uplifted arms (cat. 104)

  SzM 90.48.2.Avia Rudnyánszky Collection1990Csornay-Caprez 2000, No. 104

• Head with high polos (cat. 118)

  SzM 90.49.Avia Rudnyánszky Collection1990Csornay-Caprez 2000, No. 118