VesselsCypriot
Amphoriskos
Description
White slip with red and dark brown paint. Slight tilt off center. Rounded body with flat base. Wide neck and flat lip. Concentric circle designs between handles. Bands below handles. Neck has narrow brown stripes on either side of a wide red stripe. Bottom reads "Cyprus di Cesnola 1874"
Dimensions
13 x 8.9 cm (5 1/8 x 3 1/2 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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