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Intaglio with the Head of an African

Cypriot (Artist)
5th century BCE (Late Archaic-Classical)
black jasper
(Ancient Greece )

This intaglio shows the head of an African in profile to the right.

Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.

Charles Newton-Robinson, by 1904, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1909, p. 8, lot. 17 [as from Cyprus]; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
8/15/1960 Examination other
8/2/2011 Examination Examined
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Cyprus (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 9/16 x W: 7/16 x D: 3/8 in. (1.5 x 1.1 x 1 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters, 1909

Location in Museum

Charles Street: Second Floor: Collector's Study

Accession Number

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42.160

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