Two Handled Cup
Description
Gray clay with black and red decoration. Exterior decorated with concentric circles near lip and a scored line that separates the body into vertical panels with alternating stripes and blank spaces decorated with Xs, circles and dots. Handles and foot painted black. Bands on foot. Bottom reads "Cyprus 1874"
Dimensions
10.4 x 13.4 cm (4 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.)
Provenance
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).
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