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Reading the Fate of the Christ Child

Reading the Fate of the Christ Child, 1667

  • Josefa De Ayala, Spanish, 1630 - 1684

Oil on copper

  • Framed: Overall: 9 1/16 × 11 7/16 inches (23 × 29 cm)

2020.15

Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Collection Highlights

Car-shaped Coffin

Car-shaped Coffin, 2018

  • Joseph (Paa Joe) Tetteh Ashong
Mushhushshu-dragon, Symbol of the God Marduk

Mushhushshu-dragon, Symbol of the God Marduk, 604 - 562 BCE

  • Babylonian, Mesopotamian
Sphae

Sphae, no date

  • Mavis Iona Pusey
Reading the Fate of the Christ Child

Reading the Fate of the Christ Child, 1667

  • Josefa De Ayala
Untitled (Tehuanas in Huipil Grande Headdresses)

Untitled (Tehuanas in Huipil Grande Headdresses), ca. 1940

  • Roberto Montenegro
Velvet Panel

Velvet Panel, late 16th century

  • Islamic, Turkish

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