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Donor · Collector · Patron

Sir Charles Nicholson

1808–1903 · United Kingdom

First Chancellor of the University of Sydney. Gave to Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney.

Life and work

  1. 28 January 1860
    Addressed the University Senate offering his collection of Etruscan, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, made during a recent European and Nile journey; museum founded 1860.

    SydneyBarker & Merrillees 2017

  2. 1860–1898
    Presented a Mycenaean IIIC:1 squat jar said to be from Cyprus (NM 98.02), probably the earliest Cypriot antiquity in an Australian collection.

    SydneyBarker & Merrillees 2017Barker 2012

Objects

  • Mycenaean IIIC:1 squat jar, painted ceramic, h. 10.8 cm, max diam. 14.6 cm; provenance 'unknown' / 'said to be from Cyprus'

    Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney NM 98.02 (Webb 145)1860–1898Barker 2012Barker & Merrillees 2017

Sources

  1. 1.Craig Barker, Robert S. Merrillees (2017). “Cypriot Antiquities from the Cesnola Collections in the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney”. Mediterranean Archaeology 30, 51-71.
  2. 2.Craig Barker (2012). Aphrodite's Island: The Cypriot Collection of the Nicholson Museum. Sydney, Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney.