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CultureNage peoples
Titles
  • Pair of Woman's Earrings
Dateearly 20th century
PlaceIndonesia
MediumGold
Dimensions.1: 4 1/8 × 1 3/8 in. (10.5 × 3.5 cm)
.2: 4 × 1 1/4 in. (10.2 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2004.2286.1,.2
Non exposé

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Provenance[Frank Wiggers, Insulinde Indonesian Arts, Forest Knolls, CA, by 1999][1]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913-2008), Houston, 1999-2004; given to MFAH, 2004.

[1]Glassell Inventory, described on 3/12/99.
Published References Frances Marzio, "The Glassell Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Masterworks of Pre-Columbian, Indonesian, and African Gold" (Houston: MFAH; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), pp. 252-253.

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