August 1884
51.8 x 24.8 x 24.7 cm (20 3/8 x 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)
Antonin Proust, purchased from the artist's estate, 1905. Rikoff, France, sold; to Haro, Paris, France [through Galerie Georges Petit, 1907, lot 29]. Baron Joseph Vitta, Paris, France, 1907, sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1935 [via Martin Birnbaum], bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Wood box containing various archival materials
21st centuryPortugueseElectrotype of gold original; repoussé
19th-20th centuryMycenaeanIvory
18th-19th centuryFrenchLimestone, biosparite
14th centuryFrenchPlaster
19th centuryItalianCold-painted funerary ware: molded gray earthenware with slight traces of pigment over white gesso ground
1st-3rd century CEChineseWhite jasperware head on blue ground
18th centuryBritishLimestone
2nd-1st century BCEEgyptianMarble
19th centuryItalianQuaternary copper alloy, incised
12th centuryPersian
Bronze
20th centuryAmericanPale greenish white nephrite, with dated inscription of the Qianlong Emperor on the reverse
18th centuryChinese