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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1920.44.310
Title
Trefoil Oinochoe
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Cyprus
Culture
Cypriot?
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292661

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
36.5 x 13.8 cm (14 3/8 x 5 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920.

Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton
Accession Year
1920
Object Number
1920.44.310
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Buff colored clay, now darkened. Trefoil lip. Handle scored vertically down the middle. Very round body decorated in black and red. Decoration is bands of concentric circles alternating with stripes on upper half of vessel; lower vessel decorated with red and black stripes. Some paint drips from the circles. Body shape slightly irregular.

Publication History

  • Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum

Verification Level

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