1911–13, excavated under the direction of Baron Max von Oppenheim; ceded to Baron Max von Oppenheim in the division of finds; acquired by the Museum in 1943, purchased from the Alien Property Custodian, New York
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Length of Fabric>One of the more popular layouts with Ottoman textile artists, and one that eventually found its way into other media such as ceramic tile decoration, the pattern on this fabric fragment features parallel undulating vines adorned with leaves and flowers
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This crucifix was made to be carried in processions and is painted on both sides. Before entering the Kress collection (Shapley 1966) the two sides were separated, but they were re-united in the Museum in 1988
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Scale length: 625 mmBody length: 466 mmNeck length: 374 mmLength of string: 24 5/8 in. (62.5 cm)Length of body: 18 3/8 in. (46.7 cm)Width of upper bouts: 9 in. (22.8 cm)Width of middle bouts: 6 15/16 in
; five-piece pine top with ebonized hardwood binding and ebonized hardwood/pine/b/
Désiré van den Schrieck, Louvain (until d. 1857; his estate sale, Étienne Le Roy, Louvain, April 8–10, 1861, no. 123, as „Réunion de famille“); comte Cornet de Ways Ruart, Brussels (until d. 1870); William T
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This is an early work by Alessandro Bonvicino, known as Moretto da Brescia, who, along with Girolamo Romanino, was the dominant painter in the city of Brescia (then in the westernmost area of Venice’s mainland empire) in the first half of the sixteenth century
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Said to be from Idalium, Cyprus (A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection…, 1903, vol. 3, pt. 2, pl. LXXVIII, 1) Between 1865 and 1872, excavated in Idalium, Cyprus, by Luigi Palma di Cesnola; afterwards, collection of L
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