Museum
Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museums
Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Museum in Wolverhampton. 3 people in the register connected with it.
The Cypriot collection
59 Cypriot pieces presented by Thomas Brassey in 1888, of which 29 are certainly identified, 27 probable and 3 possible (per Symons) (1984)
History
- 18 April 188859 Cypriot pieces from the Brassey collection presented to Wolverhampton Museum by Thomas, 1st Earl Brassey; the objects derive from tombs excavated for Lady Brassey at Kourion (Symons thought probably the Ayios Ermoyenis necropolis).
KourionThomas Brassey, 1st Earl BrasseyAnna (Annie) Brassey, Baroness Brassey (née Allnutt)Taylor 2001, pp. 243-244
- 1984David Symons publishes Cypriote Antiquities in Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museums (SIMA XX:10, Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 10), Goteborg.
People
3 peopleStaff and members · 2
- David Symonsspecialist (1984–1984) · catalogued its collectionHermary 19861984
- Anna (Annie) Brassey, Baroness Brassey (née Allnutt)other (1883–1884)Taylor 2001, p. 244
Donors and lenders · 1
- Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brasseydonor (18 April 1888 – 18 April 1888) · gave objectsTaylor 2001, p. 2441888
Objects
Brassey jugs A.53-A.57, A.59?, A.60 (Symons cat. 1027-1032)
A.53-A.60from Kourion (probably)via Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey18 April 1888Taylor 2001, p. 244
Sources
- 1.Lou Taylor (2001). “Lady Brassey, 1870-1886: traveller, writer, collector, educator, woman of means and the fate of her Cypriot artefacts”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 239-247. Oxford, Oxbow.
- 2.Antoine Hermary (1986). “Chronique d'archéologie chypriote (1984-1985)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 5.
- 3.D. Symons (1984). Cypriote Antiquities in Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museums. Göteborg, Paul Åströms Förlag.
- 4.Anja Ulbrich, Thomas Kiely (2012). “Britain and the Archaeology of Cyprus. I. The long 19th century”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42. Online