Donor · Heir

Robin George Collingwood

1889–1943 · United Kingdom

Oxford professor. Gave to Ashmolean Museum.

Life and work

1938
Presented Cypriot objects to the Ashmolean Museum, including a Hellenistic terracotta seated temple boy (AN1938.1431), an Iron Age terracotta ash scoop (AN1938.343) and a head of Apollon Melanthios (AN1938.358); Masson says the pieces came to Oxford in 1938 as gifts of Collingwood, 'notably sculptures and heads', and elsewhere gives 1933.
OxfordMasson 1996 Terracotta-figure of a seated…Plain White ash or…

Connections

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Sales, gifts & bequests

Received from John Ruskinpossibly1933–1938

Colleagues & contacts

Connected with John Ruskinprobably1933–1938

Objects

Terracotta figure of a seated naked temple boy, Hellenistic
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford AN1938.14311938Terracotta-figure of a seated…
Plain White ash or charcoal scoop (shovel) in terracotta, Iron Age
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford AN1938.3431938Plain White ash or…

Sources

1.Olivier Masson (1996). “La dispersion des antiquités chypriotes: les deux collections Cesnola”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 25, 3-32. Online
2.“Terracotta-figure of a seated naked temple boy, AN1938.1431”. Ashmolean Museum. Online
3.“Plain White ash or charcoal scoop, AN1938.343”. Ashmolean Museum. Online
4.R. G. Collingwood (Wikidata / GND). Online