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Grotesque Bird
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Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
[Louis Joseph Auction Galleries Boston] sold; to Paul William Garber Brighton MA 1955 gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2005
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Paul William Garber and Philip C. Garber Class of 1956
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Waistcoat panels embroidered in coloured silks in chain stitch on cream silk satin, design depicting gardeners pushing wheelbarrows filled with turnips and other gardening implements (barrels, ladders, watering cans, rakes), a bird perched on a post. Smal
Waistcoat panels embroidered in coloured silks in chain stitch on cream silk satin, design depicting gardeners pushing wheelbarrows filled with turnips and other gardening implements (barrels, ladders, watering cans, rakes), a bird perched on a post. Smal
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Necklace with a cylinder seal pendant, gold with loop-in-loop chain, filigree and granulation, carnelian engraved with a female figure and a bird, Ancient Greece, about 300 BC. Gold necklace with a loop-in-loop chain, filigree decoration and granulation.
Necklace with a cylinder seal pendant, gold with loop-in-loop chain, filigree and granulation, carnelian engraved with a female figure and a bird, Ancient Greece, about 300 BC. Gold necklace with a loop-in-loop chain, filigree decoration and granulation.
Necklace with a cylinder seal pendant, gold with loop-in-loop chain, filigree and granulation, carnelian engraved with a female figure and a bird, Ancient Greece, about 300 BC. Gol...
Bird or Lurking Bird
Bird or Lurking Bird
Ejler Bille himself states that he modelled Lurking Bird in the course of a single night. But what a night! The movement between the concave and the convex activates the space arou...
Small Dish with Stylized Rock Dove
Small Dish with Stylized Rock Dove
Except for the brown rim, all the decoration on this small, round dish is painted in shades of cobalt blue. A rotund bird with backward-turning head neatly fills the interior. Arou...
Pen Box with Flowers, Birds, and Portraits
Pen Box with Flowers, Birds, and Portraits
On the dark brown upper surface of this pen case, European portrait roundels of a man and a woman are separated by three bird-and- flower vignettes. These unite different flora, wi...
Khan ‘Alam, Mughal Emperor Jahangir’s Falconer and His Ambassador to Iran, with a Sparrow Hawk
Khan ‘Alam, Mughal Emperor Jahangir’s Falconer and His Ambassador to Iran, with a Sparrow Hawk
Khan 'Alam was the Mughal Emperor Jahangir's (r. 1605-1627) ambassador to Iran as well as his chief falconer. Here, he stands outdoors with a sparrow hawk perched on his gloved rig...
Pen Box with Birds, Flowers, and Butterflies
Pen Box with Birds, Flowers, and Butterflies
The upper surface of this pen box (qalamdan) is divided into three lobed cartouches outlined in gold, their interstices filled with golden palmettes and flowers. A bird-and-flower ...
Pazuzu Plaque
Pazuzu Plaque
A representation of the demon Pazuzu fills the entire front of this relief plaque of gray stone. The figure displays the standard features of this hybrid creature, mixing human, ca...