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Address:
University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140
Opening Hours:
Visits may be arranged by appointment with the Co-curators between Mon-Fri 9am-5pm.
Contact:
Co-curators: Penny Minchin-Garvin or Terri Elder
penny.minchin-garvin@canterbury.ac.nz
terri.elder@canterbury.ac.nz
Phone: 64(3)3667001
Links:
James Logie Memorial Collection
University of Canterbury
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Description:
One of the University of Canterbury’s great treasures is the James Logie Memorial Collection, which contains some of the finest classical antiquities in New Zealand.
The collection spans more than two and a half thousand years, from around 2000 BC, beginning with pottery from the Bronze Age cultures of Cyprus, Crete and Mycenae. Of particular significance is the Logie Collection’s assemblage of Greek painted pottery. These vases come from Corinth and Athens, and from the islands in the Aegean, East Greece and Greek colonies in South Italy and Sicily. The styles represented include Geometric, Orientalising and Gnathian, with emphasis placed on Black and Red-Figure vases from the Archaic and Classical Periods (ca. 600-330BC).
Works of considerable renown in the Collection include the unique “Stilts Vase” by the Swing Painter, which seems to represent a troupe of actors on stilts, and an unusual pseudo- Panathenaic amphora by a Painter from the Leagros Group. Also well represented are vases originally intended for use in the symposium (drinking party), including numerous kraters (mixing bowls for wine and water) and kylikes (drinking cups), all decorated with scenes from Greek mythology, theatre and everyday life.
Further Reading:
The Logie collection : a catalogue of the James Logie Memorial Collection of classical antiquities at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch
by J.R. Green and D. Shaw-Brown, Canterbury University Press, 2009.
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