Saturday, 23 February 2013

The Bothmer Acquisition

Group of approximately 10,000 terracotta vase fragments.
Source: www.metmuseum.org
For completeness the Annual Report of the Metropolitan Museum of Art mentions the gift of pot fragments made by Dietrich von Bothmer:
The von Bothmer Fragment Collection; terracotta; Greek, 6th–4th century B.C.; TR.572.2011, accession numbers pending; Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and roman art
No further information was provided there.

However some group photographs are now available.

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