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Unknown, Lidded Box with a Portrait of a Woman, early 20th-century portrait in a late 18th-century box, watercolor on ivory mounted into a tortoise shell and metal box, 15/16 x 2 1/2 in. (2.4 x 6.4 cm), Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., 1958.17.25

Unknown, Lidded Box with a Portrait of a Woman, early 20th-century portrait in a late-18th century box

Artist Unknown (French)
Title Lidded Box with a Portrait of a Woman
Object Date early 20th-century portrait in a late 18th-century box
Medium Watercolor on ivory
Setting Tortoise shell and metal box
Dimensions 15/16 x 2 1/2 in. (2.4 x 6.4 cm)
Credit Line Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., 1958.17.25

doi: 10.37764/8322.5.4570

Provenance

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by August 7, 1958;

Their gift, through the Starr Foundation, Inc., Kansas City, MO, to the Philbrook Art Center, now Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 1958.

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Unknown, Lidded Box with a Portrait of a Woman, early 20th-century portrait in a late 18th-century box, watercolor on ivory mounted into a tortoise shell and metal box, 15/16 x 2 1/2 in. (2.4 x 6.4 cm), Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., 1958.17.25