Plaque with draped female figure,

4th–5th century

Professor E. S. [1], by February 27, 1945; [purchased by Joseph Brummer (1883-1947), New York (NY), through the mediation of Doctor Dimand [2], February 27, 1945, stock no. N6234 [3]]; purchased by Ernest T. DeWald (1891-1968), April 1949 [4]; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1964.

[1] Sic in the Brummer Gallery Records, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY). He may be identified with German archaeologist Erich F. Schmidt (1897-1964), active in the U.S. from 1923. He became professor emeritus at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

[2] Possibly Maurice Dimand, Associated Curator of Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[3] See Brummer Gallery Records, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY).

[4] The Notable Art Collection Belonging to the Estate of the Late Joseph Brummer, Parke-Bernet Galleries (New York), April 1949, Part I, no. 147. See also the object card in the museum files.

• The notable art collection belonging to the Estate of the Late Joseph Brummer: part I: Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance sculpture; ivory carvings, bronzes, silver, textiles, Gothic tapestries, Limoges & Mosan enamels, furniture, Renaissance jewels...public auction sale April 20, 21, 22 and 23, (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1949).

  , cat. no. 147
• Alfreda J. Murck, "Acquisitions 1968", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 27, no. 2 (1968): p. 94-105., p. 100
• Frances Follin Jones, "Heads and figures: a bequest", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 32, no. 1 (1973): p. 4-9.
  , p. 8 (illus.); fig. 5, p. 9
• Slobodan Curcic and Archer St. Clair, Byzantium at Princeton: Byzantine art and archaeology at Princeton University: catalogue of an exhibition at Firestone Library, Princeton University, August 1 through October 26, 1986, (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986)., cat. no. 190, p. 171
• Archer St. Clair, Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, The carver's art, Medieval sculpture in ivory, bone, and horn, (New Brunswick: Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989)., cat. no. 51