Theo Eshetu – The Return of the Axum Obelisk – British-Ethiopian – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/906178
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This installation by Dan Graham (born 1942, Urbana, Illinois) is the second in a new series of site-specific commissions for the Museum’s Roof Garden. Comprising curves of steel and two-way mirrored glass set between ivy hedgerows, Graham’s structure is part garden maze, part modernist skyscraper facade.
Additional support is provided by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky.
Line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982 Object Number: 1982.60.197a, b
The discovery of vast quantities of West African ivory, called “white gold” in Europe, transformed the nature of African-Portuguese trading in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The design of the saltcellars ( 1972.63a,b); ( 1991.435a,b), with a round vessel
Dimensions: Overall (a: cope): 58 × 122 1/2 in. (147.3 × 311.1 cm) Overall (b:
22 13/16 in. (58 cm); W. 23 1/4 in. (59 cm); D. 4 15/16 in. (12.5 cm) Overall (b,
compound silk twill Dimensions: Overall: a: 10 x 15 1/2 in. (25.4 x 39.4 cm) Overall: b.
dated 1774 Snuff bottle with boy flying a bird Accession Number: 21.175.282a, b
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NUMBER 2 "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1996–1997" Avery, Kevin J., Katharine B.
Medium: Sandstone Dimensions: A: H. 27 3/8 in. (69.5 cm); W. 27 in. (68.6 cm) B: