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Ewer with scenes depicting the legend of Marcus Curtius
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Silver
Rights: Public Domain
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Lila Acheson Wallace and Howard S. and Nancy Marks Gifts; Gift of Irwin Untermyer and funds from various donors by exchange; From the Marion E. and Leonard A. Cohn Collection Bequest of Marion E. Cohn by exchange; Bequest of Bernard M. Baruch and Gift of Mrs. Robert M. Hillas by exchange; Bequest of John L. Cadwalader and Gifts of Lewis Einstein and William H. Weintraub by exchange; From the Collection of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper Bequest of Mabel Herbert Harper and Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer by exchange 2018
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