Information
- Title
- Plaque with draped female figure
- Object Number
- y1968-243
- Medium
- Bone
- Dates
- 4th–5th century
- Dimensions
- 16.6 x 5.7 x 2.4 cm (6 9/16 x 2 1/4 x 15/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Ernest T. DeWald, Graduate School Class of 1916
- Place made
- Egypt
- Materials
Bought by Ernest T. DeWald at Brummer sale, April 20, 1949; bequest to the Museum in 1968
- 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. 105
- 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)., p. 64; cat. no. 32
- 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. 30
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