1884.38.65

Collection type

Object

Description

Pottery vessel, jug. (Emma Hook 30.6.1997) [FC 29/01/2009]

Long description

Pottery vessel, jug. “Jug of White Painted III-IV ware. Ovoid body, ring base, short cylindrical neck, pinched spout, flat handle from rim to shoulder. The shoulder opposite the handle is decorated with three abstract motifs handing down from the neckline which resemble reversed flower buds or ears of corn with stems. On either side is a pair of small cross motifs with a dot in each corner. Among the three abstract motifs are vertical columns of small superimposed chevrons. Bands around neckline and upper part of neck. Zigzag line around the middle of the neck. ‘Eye’ on either side of spout. Paint on rim. Vertical wavy band on exterior of the handle flanked by vertical bands down the edges. Hook handing down from base of handle. [Description by Karageorghis, V., 2009, p.54-55] [JFK 05/11/2009] From conservation card by Emma Hook 30.6.1997: Ceramic jug with white surface slip and black painted design, single handle and trefoil spout. Ink label reads: "Cyprus P.R. coll [12/2148a] (244) (Cesnola coll)' and "12/2148a". Paper label: "244". [FC 29/01/2009]

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: 900-750 BC Archaeological period: Iron Age Cypro-Geometric

Date collected

By 1884

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Decorated, Process Painted

Dimensions

Height: max 97 mm, Diameter: max 127 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.38.65 Other numbers: Cypriot Archaeology 049 244 PR no.: 12/ 2148a

Research and responses

“Probably excavated by Alessandro Palma di Cesnola 'Lawrence-Cesnola Collection'. Probably purchased by Pitt Rivers at Sotheby's, most likely on 15 May 1884.”. [Karageorghis, V., 2009, p.55] [JFK 05/11/2009]

It seems likely that this object was from the Lawrence-Cesnola collection which was sold at Sotheby on 15th May 1884 as other items from that collection bought on 15-17 May 1884 were received by SKM on 22 or 29 July [AP 24/04/2012]

Associated publications

Published under catalogue number 49 on page 54 in Karageorghis, V., (2009) Cypriote Art in the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. A.G. Leventis Foundation. [JFK 09/10/2009] Illustrated in black and white as number 3 in Plate XII in ‘Painted Vases from Cyprus in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford’, by John Linton Myres, Essays in Aegean Archaeology: Presented to Sir Arthur Evans in Honour of his 75th Birthday, edited by S[tanley] Casson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927), pp. 72–89. (Photocopy in Researchers File: Myres.) [JC 3 10 2008]

Search terms: Vessel, Pottery, Figure, Jug, Bird Figure