Ewer
800-700 BC
Bichrome ware (buff-colored ceramic with brown and red decoration)
6 1/2 x 4 in. (16.5 x 10.2 cm)
Gift of Georgia Penfield
2010.48
Provenance: Luigi (Louis) Palma di Cesnola, American consul to Cyprus, 1860s; Cesnola collection to 1874-76; purchased by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1874-1876—1884; purchased by Leland Stanford, 1884—1894; collection of Stanford University Museum, Palo Alto, CA, 1894—probably 1953; purchased by Henry Gellert, Seattle, probably 1953—1959 (his death); to his widow, Georgia Gellert (Penfield), Seattle, 1959—2010 (her death)
