Archaic II
Feet on a plinth
Hollow, mold-made feet wearing shoes, from a figure of approximately life size. The shoes, which reach to the base of the ankles, appear to be made of fairly stiff leather, tooled with a floral pattern at the toe. The pattern consists of a lotus flower of Archaic style at the center, flanked at either side by three lines curving down to the sole. H. 5 11/16 in. (14.5 cm)
Date
600 - 480 BC
Accession No.
74.51.1476
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
- From CyprusSaid to be from Idalion
References
- Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1894. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 2. pl. LXXIX.711, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1895. The Terracottas and Pottery of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 4 and 15. no. 384, p. 32, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1478, p. 261, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Monloup, Thérèse. 1994. Les terres cuites classiques: un sanctuaire de la grande déesse. Salamine de Chypre., Vol. 14. p. 131, Paris: Diffusion de Boccard.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 77, pp. 48, 254, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.