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Description: | -Collection is largely the result of objects aquired by Prof BB Shefton between 1956 -84 and includes Greek and Etruscan pottery ranging in date from Mycenaean to Hellenistic. It has examples of Attic red-figure and over 100 pieces of Attic black-glaze pottery and white-ground lekythoi, Also a collection of Corinthian pots, Mycenaean and Geometric pottery, red-figure of South Italy and Etruscan, and Etruscan bucchero pottery. Also Roman, Near Eastern and Celtic items.
Small collection of Greek and Etruscan metal objects, mostly bronze, includes jugs, bowls and figurines. Small collection of sculpture; terracottas are mainly small figurines, but also architectural terracottas from Sicily and Southern Italy.
Many of the stone sculptures c.60, Greek, Hellenistic and Roman, are part of a loan from the Wellcome Foundation also portrait busts and grave markers and a large porphyry foot of 3rd-4th century AD. Jewellery of gold, silver, engraved gems, carved amber and an Etruscan engraved ostrich shell.
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 0191 222 8561 | Telephone: | 0191 222 8732 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6199 | Go to resource |
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