The Campana Gallery after Pottier’s
Rearrangement of the collection.

After P. Rouet, Approaches to the Study of Attic Vases. (Oxford, 2001) pl. 9

 

 

 

Pottier had become a curator in the Louvre in 1884, two years before all of its ancient pottery was incorporated into the Department of Oriental Antiquities.

When the Louvre purchased several thousand ancient vases from the Campana Collection it became the largest collection of ancient pottery in the world. Many types were represented, for example Proto-Elamitic pottery which Pottier had been the first to publish in 1912.

Pottier's vision of the types of pottery in CVA was broad - all ancient pottery from Europe, the Mediterranean, the Near East and the Middle East.

 

 

 

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