Sphinx

ca. 1200 (Medieval)

11.5 cm 12.2 cm

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Together with a similar piece now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 10.134.5), this statuette may originally have been the foot of a large candlestick or of another similar object. Creatures with a human head and a bird's body (called sirens or harpies) were fi...

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21421
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Henri de Lannoy, Paris, by purchase; Henri Daguerre, Paris [date of acquisistion unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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