Cypriot Terracotta Trick Vase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Title: Terracotta trick vase

Medium; Technique: Terracotta

Culture: Cypriot

Period: Cypro-Archaic I

Date: ca. 750–600 B.C.

Dimensions: H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76

Accession Number: 74.51.584

Description:

One of the most winning pieces in the Cesnola Collection, the vase is in the form of a bull. It was filled through the hollow foot and emptied through the hole in the bull's mouth, which is a spout modified into a head. Trick vases of this kind first appear in Cypro-Geometric pottery.

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