About the Artwork
Walking Ibis
between 600 and 30 BCE
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Egyptian
Egyptian
Bronze and wood with wax inlay
Overall: 7 3/4 × 2 5/8 × 7 5/8 inches (19.7 × 6.7 × 19.4 cm) Including base (mount): 8 1/16 × 2 15/16 × 7 5/8 inches (20.5 × 7.5 × 19.4 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
76.7
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Loewi-Robertson, Inc., Los Angeles, California, USA)
1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Egyptian, Walking Ibis, between 600 and 30 BCE, bronze and wood with wax inlay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 76.7.
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