Handle Terminating in a Ram's Head
The handle is round in section and ends in a ram's head. The rings were made by turning the ivory on a lathe before the head was carved. A tang fitted into the object, now missing, for which it served as a handle.
Artifact
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id
8001
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| contentType |
contentType
object
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| stage |
stage
normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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| rightsUri |
rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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| pageCount |
pageCount
1
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| source |
source
import
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Source image fields (5)
| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.627_Lft_BW.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.627_Lft_BW.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.627_Lft_BW.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.627 |