Gold dust box with lid

CultureAsante peoples
Titles
  • Gold dust box with lid
Date1900–1977
PlaceGhana, Africa
MediumBrass
Dimensions7/8 × 1 5/8 in. diameter (2.2 × 4.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky
Object number77.64.A,.B
Non exposé

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Department
African Art
Object Type
ProvenanceAlvin S. Romansky (1907–1994) and Ethel Romansky (1917–1986), Houston, by 1977; given to MFAH, 1977.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited "Containers and Vessels" The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston October 21, 1989 - January 1990 Subsequent tour

"African Gold from the Glassell Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston"
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 13 March 2004 - 19 September 2004
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 2 November 2005 - 26 March 2006
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 26 May 2006 - 26 November 2006
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Art, Spring, Texas, 26 July 2008 - 2 November 2008
Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas, 17 September 20011 - 7 January, 2012

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