Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Collector

Eugène Piot

fl. 1860–1891 · France

French collector, active 1860–1891. Sold to Musée du Louvre; bought from Robert Hamilton Lang and Luigi Palma di Cesnola.

Life and work

  1. 1869
    Spent a month in Cyprus; Sandwith wrote to Newton (17 March 1869) that Mr Piot had bought one of the two jars surmounted by a female head and was carrying away about 5000 francs' worth of pieces from Mr Lang's and Mr Cesnola's collections. The jar is Piot 1890 no. 94, later Ashmolean 1974.437.

    LarnacaTatton-Brown 2001

  2. January 1890
    Froehner went to Piot to recommend Cypriote terracottas and vases (diary, January 1890); he had earlier made purchases for Piot.

    ParisHellmann 1991

Connections

5 people
Luigi Palma di CesnolaRobert Hamilton LangC. RollinWilhelm FroehnerAlbert BarreEugène Piot
Sales & giftsColleagues

Sales, gifts & bequests

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Bichrome IV jar with female head (Idalion; Piot 1890 no. 94), Cesnola purchase of 1869, then Rollin, De Clercq no. 563

    From IdalionAshmolean Museum, Oxford 1974.4371869Tatton-Brown 2001Masson 1996, p. 11

  • Red Polished jug, Piot sale lot 82

    Musée du Louvre (AM 229), deposited at Musée de la Castre, Cannes AM 2291890Decaudin 1993

Sources

  1. 1.Marie-Christine Hellmann (1991). “W. Froehner et Chypre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 16, 17-28. Online
  2. 2.Olivier Masson (1996). “La dispersion des antiquités chypriotes: les deux collections Cesnola”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 25, 3-32. Online
  3. 3.Antoinette J. Decaudin (1993). “Musée de Cannes. Chypre dans l'antiquité. Catalogue”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 19. Online
  4. 4.Annie Caubet (1993). “Les antiquités chypriotes au Musée du Louvre”. Kinyras : l'archéologie française à Chypre. Lyon. Online
  5. 5.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
  6. 6.Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (2026). Statuette: tête de femme, E 257-1.