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Coiled Feline
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Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Stuart Cary Welch Warner NH (by 1969–2008) transfer; to the Edith I. Welch 2004 Trust (2008-2016) transfer; to The Welch Family Holdings LLC Thomas C. Welch Manager Cambridge MA (2016-2023) gift; to the Harvard Art Museums.
Note: Stuart Cary Welch (1928-2008). Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art at the Harvard Art Museums (1976-2008) and Special Consultant in charge of the department of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1979-1987.)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of the family of Edith and Stuart Cary Welch
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