Terracotta jug
Description: | Birds represent a frequent motif on this class of jugs with so-called free-field decoration. The variety in the birds' articulation is noteworthy, although the recurrent basic species is characterized by a rather large body, a long neck with pronounced beak, and wiry talons. Here the figure appears in front of a lotus flower. H. 9 15/16 in. (25.3 cm) |
Period: | Archaic I |
Date: | 750 - 600 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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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. CXXVIII.958, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 754, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Bandinelli, Ranuccio Bianchi. 1958. Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale, Vol. 2. p. 642, fig. 871, Rome: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 160, p. 101, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.503 |