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Incense Burner in the Form of a Woman with Two Children

Culture Messapian
Title Incense Burner in the Form of a Woman with Two Children
Date 500–400 BCE
Medium Terracotta
Dimensions Object: 8 1/4 × 3 1/2 × 3 9/16 in. (21 × 8.9 × 9 cm)
Overall: 8 1/4 × 3 1/2 × 3 9/16 in. (21 × 9 × 9 cm)
Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 85.5.3

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1985, Indiana University Art Museum purchase from Michael Ward, Inc., New York, NY

?–1985, with Michael Ward, Inc., New York, NY [1]

Possibly: before 1985, Private Collection, Japan [2]

Notes:

[1] Michael L. Ward (b. 1943) was an antiquities dealer, maintaining a gallery in New York (NY) from 1982 to 2010.

[2] In a memo to the curator of ancient art (probably in December 1984), Michael Ward states that the "figure comes from a Japanese private colletion [sic] and was purchased, I believe, a number of years ago on the London market."

Provenance research is ongoing for this and many other items in the Eskenazi Museum of Art permanent collection. For more information about the provenance of this artwork, please contact the department curator with specific questions.

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