Archaic I
Terracotta trick vase
One of the most winning pieces in the Cesnola Collection, the vase is in the form of a bull. It was filled through the hollow foot and emptied through the hole in the bull's mouth, which is a spout modified into a head. Trick vases of this kind first appear in Cypro-Geometric pottery. H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
Date
750 - 600 BC
Accession No.
74.51.584
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 519, 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. 147, p. 92, 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. 285, pp. 244, 462, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Ebbinghaus, Susanne and Henry P. Colburn. 2018. "Emblematic animals at the Iron Age feasts." Animal-shaped vessels from the ancient world : feasting with gods, heroes, and kings. no. 9, pp. 118,120, fig. 3.28, Cambridge: Harvard Art Museums.