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Bowl with Decoration of Two Parrots in Flight
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Department of Asian Art
[Mathias Komor New York (by 1962)] sold; to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Cambridge MA (1962-2014) 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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