Description
This plaque- representing two figures (one possibly a musician) riding an elephant- was made as part of the inlaid fittings for a door, chest, or other large piece of furniture.
Exhibitions
Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue . The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Yeshiva University Museum, New York. 2013-2014.
Provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
