Victoria and Albert Museum

No substantial Cypriot antiquities holding today: the 1880s South Kensington finds, the Campbell vases and the Ashbee bequest were transferred to the British Museum in 1980-1983 (Ashbee 1980, Hake-Kitchener material 'early 1980s'). Remaining Cypriot items include a medieval Larnaca tympanum (A.2-1982) and contemporary Cypriot lace. (2012)

Ulbrich & Kiely 2012Tatton-Brown 2001, p. 170Masson 1996

1. 18 September 1869
   Henry Harper, writing to the South Kensington Museum, proposed a cautious purchase of Luigi Palma di Cesnola's Cypriot collection (not taken up)

   LondonHenry HarperMarangou 2000

2. 1874–1884
   Pitt Rivers's First Collection (including Cypriot material) displayed on loan at Bethnal Green and then South Kensington

   LondonAugustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt RiversUlbrich & Kiely 2012

3. 1882
   On Kitchener's suggestion the Museum funded excavations in Cyprus run by George Gordon Hake (c. 45 tombs, St Barnabas to Enkomi area). Instructions were to collect 'from the aesthetic and decorative and not from the archaeological point of view', so tomb groups were broken up and findspot records are minimal. Newton had declined to take the finds for the British Museum

   Famagusta districtHerbert KitchenerGeorge Gordon HakeKiely 2010, p. 244Ulbrich & Kiely 2012Myres & Ohnefalsch-Richter 1899

4. 1882–1884
   Groups of the Hake-Kitchener finds sent on to regional and national museums (Dublin and Edinburgh named) as part of the Museum's loan and donation programme; the Dublin Cypriot material apparently never displayed

   Dublin; EdinburghUlbrich & Kiely 2012

5. 1882
   A glass tumbler with moulded leaf-and-fruit decoration from Sir Robert Biddulph's share of Ohnefalsch-Richter's excavations deposited in the Museum

   CyprusRobert BiddulphMyres & Ohnefalsch-Richter 1899Kiely & Merrillees 2012

6. 1885
   Cypriot vases bequeathed by Colin Minton Campbell; a substantial number transferred by the Museum to Birmingham and other museums

   Colin Minton CampbellUlbrich & Kiely 2012

7. 1901
   Bequest of Cypriot antiquities from Henry Spencer Ashbee received

   Henry Spencer AshbeeTatton-Brown 2001, p. 170

8. 1982
   Medieval (13th-c.) tympanum from a church at Larnaca, 61.5 x 104 cm, entered as A.2-1982; formerly lot 625 of the 1892 Cesnola sale, bought by Pitt Rivers. Route and mode of transfer not stated by Masson

   LarnacaAlessandro (Alexander) Palma di CesnolaK. Digby-JonesAugustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt RiversMasson 1996

• Medieval (13th-c.) tympanum from a church at Larnaca

  A.2-1982from Larnacavia K. Digby-Jones1982Masson 1996

• Moulded glass tumbler with four sprays of leaves and fruit, from Biddulph's share

  via Robert Biddulph1882Myres & Ohnefalsch-Richter 1899

• Polychrome (Bichrome VII) jug with figurine holding an oinochoe from the 1882 Hake-Kitchener excavations

  via Herbert Kitchener1882Vandenabeele 2001, p. 186

• The Savant of LarnacaArticle