Disk Pectoral with Birds

Disk Pectoral with Birds

Public Domain

CultureTimor Island peoples
Titles
  • Disk Pectoral with Birds
Datelate 19th–early 20th century
PlaceIndonesia
MediumSheet gold
Dimensions1/4 × 5 1/8 in. diameter (0.6 × 13 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2004.2299
Non exposé

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Department
Asian Art, Glassell Collection
Object Type
Provenance[Francois Rabier, by 1993][1]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913-2008), Houston, 1994-2004; given to MFAH, 2004.

[1]Glassell Inventory, described on 8/20/93.

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