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Box Brooch

Culture Roman
Title Box Brooch
Date 100–300 CE
Medium Bronze and glass
Dimensions Overall: 2 1/16 x 3/4 in. (5.2 x 1.9 cm)
Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 84.5.2

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1984, Indiana University Art Museum purchase from Michael Ward, Inc., New York, NY [1]

?–1984, with Michael Ward, Inc., New York, NY [2]

Notes:

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

[2] Note on accession card in curatorial file (information probably from Michael Ward): "Said to have been found near Rheims, France."

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