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
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Dado PanelThe room in Nishapur, Iran, from which this dado panel was excavated once had a lively scheme of painted decoration. The upper section of the wall was colored a deep red, beneath which was a short horizontal frieze of hexagons and diamonds, and a four-foot-high dado with alternating rectangular and square panels
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[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
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Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Prussia (until d. 1797, bequeathed to Ingenheim); Counts of Ingenheim, Hirschburg, Silesia (from 1797); Countess Ingenheim; Friedrich Lippman Jr., ?Berlin; [Osvald Sirén, Stockholm, until Nov
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From the Saint Anne Portal, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris (ca. 1180–ca. 1793 (?)).; possibly Dr. Lecorché, France (?); [ Lucien J. Demotte, Paris and New York (through Manuel Cobo, by 1930–sold 1937)]; [ C
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Inscription: (On scroll): . Ave . / . gracia . / . ple / na . (Hail [Mary] full of grace)Marking: Arms [on shield held by two angels, center top]: Vilanova of Castile, Catalonia, etc
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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)]
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