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Plaque with Dancer
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Fragment of a convex decorative bone plaque carved in low relief. On the plaque is depicted a nude child dancer (a putto or a cupid?), under what is perhaps an architectural frame. It likely decorated furnishings, like a box or furniture.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
[Charles Dikran Kelekian New York (by 1982)] inherited by; his wife Beatrice Kelekian New York (1982-1984) gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums 1984.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mrs. Beatrice Kelekian in memory of her husband Charles Dikran Kelekian
Title: Plaque with Dancer
Description:
Fragment of a convex decorative bone plaque carved in low relief.
On the plaque is depicted a nude child dancer (a putto or a cupid?), under what is perhaps an architectural frame.
It likely decorated furnishings, like a box or furniture.
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