1884.38.9

Collection type

Object

Description

Ceramic jug with painted decoration from Cyprus; Middle Bronze Age in date [Dan Hicks 30/4/2012].

Long description

Pottery vessel. “Jug of white painted III-V. String-hole style. Elongated, ovoid body with slightly depressed sides, flat base, cylindrical neck with side mouth and narrow tubular spout (top missing), handle from neck to shoulder. Vertically arranged string-hole lugs: two rows down the sides, one below the handle, another opposite the handle, string-hole at top of handle. Opposite the mouth there is a vertical pierced lug and there are two on either side, recalling a nose and two ears of an anthropomorphic face. Painted loops below ‘ears’ recall earrings. Decorations in orange to black matt paint. Horizontal rows of latticed triangles around body, separated by two opposed groups of vertical zigzag lines. Latticed triangles and horizontal lines around neck and neckline. Zigzag line around flat part of lip. Crossed diagonals on base.” [Description by Karageorghis, V., 2009, p.34] [JFK 16/10/2009] From Conservation Card by Lorraine Rostant 12/06/1997 - Ovoid pottery vessel with flat bottom, narrow neck and circular mouth on side of neck. On front back and side are small pierced protuberances ?for lacing? Vessel has beige slip onto which is painted black latticed triangle design with zigzag parallel lines. [MJD 27/1/2009]

Geographical reference

Cyprus

Asia > Western Asia > Cyprus

Unknown

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Alessandro Palma di Cesnola

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Date made: 1900-1600 BC Archaeological period: Bronze Age

Date collected

By 1884

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Pottery, Process Incised, Process Decorated

Dimensions

Height: max 175 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.38.9 Other numbers: Cypriot Archaeology 019 PR Cat other PR nos: 1422 PR no.: 4c/ 913

Research and responses

“Probably excavated by Alessandro Palma di Cesnola”. [Karageorghis, V., 2009, p.34] [JFK 16/10/2009]

This object is from the Lawrence-Cesnola collection which was sold at Sotheby on 15th May 1884. This object is part of lot number 1422 which is described in the sale catalogue as an 'Ornamental Sprinkler'. See copy of auctioneer's copy of the sale catalogue which is in the Cesnola Collectors File (the auctioneer's copy has who bought the object written in the margin, these are on microfilm in the Bodleian Library, Oxford). The Lawrence-Cesnola collection was mainly made up of objects collected or purchased from other collectors by Major A. Palma di Cesnola who was funded by Edwin Henry Lawrence. This is the sale of Lawrence's collection. Lawrence also purchased material from Major di Cesnola's brother - General Luigi Palma di Cesnola but, from the information in the sale catalogue it is extremely unlikely that this object is from General di Cesnola's collection. [MdeA 23 6 1999]

Associated publications

Published under catalogue number 19 on page 34 in Karageorghis, V., (2009) Cypriote Art in the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. A.G. Leventis Foundation. [JFK 08/10/2009]

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