Terracotta jug

Terracotta jug

Description:

Vertical-circle ornament and highly conventionalized bird.


H. 10 3/8 in. (26.4 cm)

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1885. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 1. pl. CXXXI.973, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 766, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.506