Jug with Basket Texture
Cypriot
Graeco-Roman, 30 BCE-330 CE
Red terracotta with red slip
Overall: 7 15/16 × 6 1/16 in. (20.1 × 15.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Emily Howe Hitchcock, Class of 1872HW
12.3.563
Geography
Place Made: Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, West Asia, Asia
Period
1-500
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Classical World
Not on view
Exhibition History
The Age of the Marvelous, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 21- November 24, 1991; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 25- March 22, 1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 24- August 25, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 6, 1992- January 3, 1993, naturalia no. n145.
Provenance
Collected by Luigi Palma di Cesnola; given to Hiram Hitchcock, Hanover, New Hampshire; bequested to Emily Howe Hitchcock, 1900; bequeathed to present collection, 1912.
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