1884.39.31

Collection type

Object

Description

Terracotta figure of man on horse.

Long description

Pottery figure of man on horse. “Horse-and-rider figurine. Handmade. Similar to cat. No 75 [1884.39.25]. The rider wears a conical headdresss painted red, his facial features and beard are rendered with black paint, red diagonals on his back, black for his fingers. The horse has a flat breast decorated with two horizontal panels filled with vertical zigzags and two red horizontal bands, flat forelock painted red, red bands on forehead, black and red bands along legs, tail down left hind leg.” [Description by Karageorghis, V., 2009, p. 80] [JFK 13/11/2009] From Conservation Card by Emma Hook 15/05/1997 - Pottery figure of a man on horseback, decorated with red and black paint. Ink label reads: "CYPRUS P.R. Coll (3/9868) (674) (?Cesnola coll)". [MJD 27/1/2009]

Geographical reference

Cyprus

Asia > Western Asia > Cyprus

Unknown

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Luigi Palma di Cesnola

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Date made: 600-480 BC Archaeological period: Iron Age Cypro-Archaic II

Date collected

By 1879 Aug

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Terracotta Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Painted

Dimensions

Height: max 115 mm, Width: max 97 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.39.31 Other numbers: Cypriot Archaeology 076 PR no.: 3/ 9868 ?3/ 9368

Research and responses

It is most likely that this object was purchased by Rollin or Feuardent or both at a sale held at Sotheby on the 1st and 2nd July 1879 or possibly at an earlier sale. Certainly, in the catalogue for this sale there is nothing to suggest that this object was part of a Cesnola collection however it is not impossible that the object is from the Cesnola collection. The sale on these dates included 'A collection of Antique Glass from Cyprus; Stone, Bronzes; Terra-Cotta Vases; ... ' See microfilm of the auctioneer's copy of the sale catalogue held in the Bodleian Library. [MdeA 28.6.1999]

There are no objects with the fraction number 9868 in the green book. If my theory about fraction numbers is correct [see Introduction to the Lt-Genl PR catalogue] then objects with this number should have associated dates of between July and September 1879 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

I can see no lot matching this object in the catalogue for the sale on 1-2 July 1879. I have placed a copy of this catalogue on file in the RDF for 1884.2.1. The primary documentation for this object shows no connection to the Sotheby sale, which was in Juy 1879, not August 1879. [Dan Hicks 19/07/2013]

Associated publications

Published under catalogue number 76 on page 80 in Karageorghis, V., (2009) Cypriote Art in the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. A.G. Leventis Foundation. [JFK 09/10/2009]

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