Terracotta jug - image 1

Middle Bronze Age I

Terracotta jug

White-painted decoration was the predominant style of the Chalcolithic period and reappeared at the end of the Early Cypriot III period. By the eighteenth century B.C., in the period after this vase was produced, White Painted Ware became the dominant type in Cypriot ceramics. H. 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm)

Date

1900 - 1800 BC

Accession No.

74.51.1316

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 267, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 35, p. 33, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 264, pp. 227, 457-58, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.