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Female Head with Floral Headdress
(Islamic World )
This piece is decorated with a gold-olive lustre on white. It may have served as the top of a large vase or water vessel.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
[Found at Rhadjes]; Dikran Kelekian, Constantinople, New York, and Paris, [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 4/18/1960 | Treatment | cleaned |
Geographies
Iran, Kashan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 5 7/8 × W: 4 5/8 × D: 3 in. (15 × 11.8 × 7.6 cm); A (Head) H: 5 13/16 × W: 4 1/8 × D: 3 in. (14.7 × 10.4 × 7.6 cm); B (Stand) H: 1 9/16 × W: 4 5/8 × D: 2 1/16 in. (3.9 × 11.8 × 5.3 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1914
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.1192