Inscription: Signed and inscribed: (lower center) NICOLAVS·ZAFVRI·PINXIT·; (top, in Greek) [Christ] being dragged to the cross; (beside Christ’s head, in Greek) Jesus Christ; (right, on banner) SPQR
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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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Purchased from Eustache de Lorey, Paris, 1934; continuously exhibited and frequently published since that time; included in interational exhibition Cleopatra’s Egypt, Brooklyn and Munich, 1988, and La Gloire d’Alexandrie, Paris 1998
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Karl Anton Prinz von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen(inv. no. 5236); Baron Robert von Hirsch, Frankfurt and Basel (until 1977); his sale, Sotheby’s, London(22 June 1978, lot 267); [ Michael Ward, New York (sold 1996)]
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reproduction of its original trophy-style frame, based on a photograph by Mathew B.
Inscription: Inside soundhole, circular inscription: „Manufactured by the [prince of the] state of Lu in the year guiyou of the Chongzhen reign of the great Ming; #18.“Marking: 1) (on back at head) the title „honghe“(Capital Peace); 2) (on back below title) the seal „Luguo shi quan“ (Heirloom of the Lu State); 3) (below seal) 22-character poem that reads: The moonlight is being reflected by the river Yangtze, A light breeze is blowing over clear dewdrops, Only in a tranquil place Can one comprehend the feeling of eternity
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Until 1924, collection of Alexandre Merle de Massonneau, who acquired material from the Caucasus area of south Russia and Crimea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Leskov 2008, p. 1); acquired by the Museum in 1924, purchased from the Massonneau collection in Paris by John Marshall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s agent in Europe
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1967, excavated under the direction of David Stronach and John Hansman, representing the British Institute of Persian Studies and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; acquired by the Museum in 1969, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
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