- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Red ware globular vessel with small foot, squat neck and a short spout. [ASh [OPS move] 25/04/2016]
- Long description
- Red ware globular vessel with small foot, squat neck and a short spout. There is a handle attached to the shoulder and the neck. Decorated on the exterior with black and white zonal bands and white foliage designs on the sides. [ASh [OPS move] 25/04/2016]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Alessandro Palma di Cesnola
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Iron Age
- Date collected
- By 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Dimensions
- Height: max 148 mm, Width: max 133 mm, Diameter: max 109 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.38.25 Other numbers: 111 PR no.: 3c/ 913
- Research and responses
This object is from the Lawrence-Cesnola collection which was sold at Sotheby on 15th May 1884. This object is the second part of lot number 1147 which is described in the sale catalogue as 'a deep red ware sprinkler, ornamented with a white slip'. 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]
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