A descriptive atlas of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A descriptive atlas of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities, published in Boston in 1885 by J.R. Osgood for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, documents objects Luigi Palma di Cesnola excavated on Cyprus. Its plates show painted clay vessels, mostly jars and amphorae, drawn in muted browns, ochres and cream on pale paper, with bands, rosettes and geometric panels a designer could adapt for vintage pottery motifs and ancient ornament.
