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CultureByzantine
Titles
  • Panel with Two Peacocks
Date501–700 AD
MediumAlabaster
Dimensions24 5/8 × 15 1/2 × 2 7/8 in. (62.5 × 39.4 × 7.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by The Brown Foundation, Inc. and Louisa Stude Sarofim in honor of Isabel B. Wilson
Object number2008.382
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
200 Jamail Atrium
On view

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Department
Antiquities
Object Type
Provenance[Gallery Matte, Geneva, before 1965–1968]; purchased by Charles Probst, Geneva, 1968; purchased by Khalil Homsi, Paris, 1980s; [Phoenix Ancient Art, New York/Geneva, by 2008]; purchased by MFAH, 2008.
Published References Art Passions, "Revue Suisse d'Art et de Culture," Geneva, no. 14, June 2008, p.35.

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Borromee
René Lalique
Designed 1928, made 1934–1935
Glass
2000.730
Overall recto
Unknown Indian
late 19th century–early 20th century
Cotton with cotton embroidery
2024.699
Skirt Strip
Unknown Indian
19th century
Cotton, silk
33.78
Handkerchief
Unknown
19th century
Linen
40.58
Basket
Worcester Porcelain Manufactory
c. 1770–1785
Soft-paste porcelain
B.56.94
Incensario Stand
Unknown Central and South American
c. 600–900
Earthenware with pigment
2018.637
Incensario Stand
Unknown Central and South American
c. 600–900
Earthenware with pigment
2018.638
Shakhrisyabz Suzani
Unknown
c. 1800
Cotton; embroidered with silk thread
2016.83
Markandeya Refers Jaimuni to the Four Wise Birds
Unknown Indian
c. 1800–1820
Gouache with gold on paper
2013.61
Top section of dress
Zandra Rhodes
1986
Polyester and pearl embellishments
87.368.A,.B
Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Lord Dacre
Andrea Soldi
1736–1744
Oil on canvas
2008.30
Wutala, Ancestral Crown
Unknown Indonesian
17th–18th century
Gold
2004.2308
Byzantine