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Seated Actor Wearing a Comic Mask

Culture Roman
Title Seated Actor Wearing a Comic Mask
Date 100 BCE–100 CE
Medium Bronze
Dimensions Overall (head to seat): 1 3/4 x 1 in. (4.4 x 2.5 cm)
Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 74.43.1

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1974, Indiana University Art Museum purchase from Robin Symes, London, England

ca. 1970–1974, with Robin Symes, London, England [1]

Notes:

[1] Robin Symes (b. 1939) operated as an art and antiquities dealer in London from about 1970. Robin Symes Limited was founded in 1977 and dissolved in 2005.

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.

September 7–November 30, 2007, "The Roman World," The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

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