Inscription: (on each corner and in center): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified)(on red horn): W [backwards E] D H N O H N M E H O M (too fragmentary for interpretation)
B. Lippincott, 1925. pl. VI, b–d. Breck, Joseph.
Modern and Contemporary Art 3 of 20 Cornet-trompe in D 5 of 20 Bass saxhorn in B-flat
1840s, excavated under the direction of Austen Henry Layard; 1849, presented by Layard to Lady Charlotte Guest for Canford Manor, Dorsetshire (Dorset), England; 1919, purchased by Dikran Kelekian from Ivor Churchill Guest; 1927, purchased by J
Louchheim, Aline B. 1949. “Near-Eastern Art Placed on Display: Metropolitan Shows
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1935, pl. 61a,b. Parrot, André. 1948.
From a room above the chapter house of the Monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, near Hortigüela, Burgos, Spain (sold by the government in the nineteenth century); Private Collection ; [ Sr. Colominas, Barcelona (sold 1931)]
Paintings-Fresco Credit Line: The Cloisters Collection, 1931 Object Number: 31.38.2a, b
Bidri Water Pipe BaseOf the small number of known bidri objects that predate the eighteenth century, a majority are huqqa (water pipe) bases. Tobacco arrived in India sometime in the late sixteenth century, brought by the Portuguese from the New World to the port of Goa
Textile Museum Journal 25, 1986, p. 14, fig. 18, p. 21, no. 19.
B. Faure). Paris. Exposition Internationale Universelle.
[By 1918, R.D. Messayeh, New York]; [1919, purchased by Joseph Brummer from Messayeh, New York (Brummer inv. no. N315)]; acquired by the Museum in 1947, purchased from the estate of Joseph Brummer, New York
Louchheim, Aline B. 1949. “Near-Eastern Art Placed on Display: Metropolitan Shows
baron Arthur de Schickler, Martinvast, France (by 1908–d. 1919); his daughter, comtesse Hubert de Pourtalès, Martinvast (1919; sold to Duveen); [Duveen, Paris, and Wildenstein, Paris, 1919, as by Alvise Vivarini; sold to Salomon]; William Salomon, New York (d
Arts 5 (May 1924), p. 264, ill. p. 263, as in the collection of Andrew W.
Beeson, Nora B., ed. Guide to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
