About the Artwork
Winged Scarab
between 663 and 525 BCE
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Egyptian
Egyptian
Faience
2 3/4 x 1 3/4 x 7/8 inches. (7.0 x 4.4 x 2.2 cm) Overall: 2 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 7/8 inches. (7.0 x 26 x 2.2 cm)
Funerary Art
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth and Allan Shelden Fund
51.226.A
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Dikran G. Kelekian, Inc. New York, New York, USA)
1951-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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DIA BULLETIN, vol 31, nos 3 & 4, 1951-52, p 62 (ill).
Exh. Cat. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, GIFTS OF THE NILE: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FAIENCE, May 10, 1998-April 25, 1999. #158, ill. p.150.
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Egyptian, Winged Scarab, between 663 and 525 BCE, Faience. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth and Allan Shelden Fund, 51.226.A.
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