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Head of an Eastern Woman ("The Ponsonby Head")
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Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
William Francis Spencer Ponsonby First Lord de Mauley (by 1854). Hon. Ashley G. J. Ponsonby London (by 1881) by inheritance; to Claude Ponsonby London (1898-1903) sold; to Edward W. Forbes Cambridge MA (1903-1905) gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1905.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Edward W. Forbes
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