Jewelry Box with Dancers and Faun

4th-6th century (Late Antique)

35.6 cm 34.3 cm 30.5 cm

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This reconstructed wood and bone box was probably used by a wealthy woman to store her precious jewelry. Two different techniques were used to carve the bone plaques on its sides and top. For a number of the male nudes, the carver scraped away the background, leaving the fig...

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Dikran Kelekian, Constantinople, Paris, and New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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