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Dish with Abstract "Rope-Pattern" Decoration
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Department of Asian Art
[William H. Wolff New York (by ca. 1970)] sold; to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Cambridge MA (ca. 1970-2014) gift from Sylvan Barnet and bequest from William Burto; to the Harvard Art Museums 2014.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto
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