Charlotte Major Wylie
The Veiled King Death

CultureBritish
Titles
  • The Veiled King Death
Datec. 1893
MediumTempera and gesso, with silver and gold leaf, bone, pearl, agate and colored stone inlays, on a circular wood panel, set within an artist-made frame
DimensionsPanel: 20 diameter in. (50.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors
Object number2023.76
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
220 McNair Gallery
On view

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Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; likely bequeathed to her sister Dorothy Major Ridley Newmarch (died 1922),Catherham, Surry, England;
[Christie’s London, June 1984, lot 170]; [Robert Simon Fine Art, New York, 2022]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.


Exhibition HistoryArts and Crafts Exhibition Society, New Gallery, London, 1893, no. 457.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The title is inscribed in raised capital letters on the edge of the roundel.
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Catalogue raisonnéNA

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