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Five Earrings and a Bead
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a) glass
b) ivory (?)
c) glass
d) glass
e) glass
f) glass, Thailand (Ban Chiang)
Rights: Public Domain
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky 1987
Title: Five Earrings and a Bead
Description:
a) glass
b) ivory (?)
c) glass
d) glass
e) glass
f) glass, Thailand (Ban Chiang).
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