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Exhibition of Oriental Art, The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, February 1916, no. 357.
Exhibition of Mohammedan Art, The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1918, no. 218.
Mary Anne Italia Blair (Mrs. Chauncey J., née Mitchell, 1856-1940), Chicago, IL, by 1916-1922;
Purchased from Blair by the dealer Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York, 1922 [1];
Purchased from Kevorkian by the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) Museum, Philadelphia, no. NEP10, 1922-1933;
Transferred from the Penn Museum to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933 [2].
NOTES:
[1] The transaction between Blair and Kevorkian is not entirely clear: it is possible this object was consigned by Blair to Kevorkian, rather than purchased from Blair by Kevorkian. Either way, the object's ownership was directly transferred from Blair, through Kevorkian, to the Penn Museum.
[2] In 1931-32 the Nelson-Atkins co-sponsored an archaeological expedition to the Astarabad region of northeastern Iran. The partage agreement between the museums specified that if the value of the found objects did not match the dollar amount invested by the Nelson-Atkins, the Penn Museum would transfer objects from its own collection to the Nelson-Atkins to make up the difference. When the excavation failed to meet expectations, this was one of several objects transferred from the Penn Museum’s collection to the Nelson-Atkins.
University of Pennsylvania, The University Museum and John Getz, Exhibition of Oriental Art, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1916), 253.
University of Pennsylvania, The University Museum, Section of Oriental Art, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: University Museum, 191), 40.
