1600-1650
26.4 × 13.5 × 7.8 cm (10 3/8 × 5 5/16 × 3 1/16 in.)
[Art dealer, Germany, sold]; [to M. Glueckselig & Son, New York, NY (?-1959), sold]; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1959. Notes: According to a letter from Frederick Glueckselig of M. Glueckselig & Son to Charles L. Kuhn at the Busch-Reisinger Museum dated April 28, 1959, Mr. Glueckselig purchased both BR59.32 and BR59.33 from a well-known German art dealer without a detailed provenance history. Mr. Glueckselig did not disclose the name of the German art dealer and merely specified that the dealer had recently passed away.
Pentelic marble
2nd century CERoman
Glazed ceramic
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19th centuryItalianMarble
1st-2nd century CERomanMarble
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianTerracotta
9th-8th century BCECypriot?
Iron and steel
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8th centuryChineseBronze
20th centuryAmerican