1920.44.55: Pitcher
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1920.44.55
- Title
- Pitcher
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Cyprus
- Culture
- Cypriot
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292924
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- 14.5 x 6.7 cm (5 11/16 x 2 5/8 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
- 1920.44.55
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Small pitcher, broken and mended, with trefoil mouth. Red with black decoration. Small concentric circles parallel with the base of the handle. Two sets of broad bands within narrow bands between them at the full point of the body. Three large concentric circle designs below the stripes. Bottom reads "Cyprus 1874"
Verification Level
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