
Object Title
Belt hook of a grazing ibex
Measurements
1 1/16 × 1 1/2 in. (2.7 × 3.8 cm)
Creation Date
2nd-1st century BC
Credit Line
Gift of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation
Culture
Country of Origin
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://emuseum.cornell.edu/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:47452
Provenance Information
by 1933 collection of C.T. Loo et Cie. n.d. collection of Colonel William Mayer (b. 1892-1975), California, Washington D.C., and China; 1960 collection of Frank Caro/C.T. Loo, NYC (purchased from Colonel Mayer); 1960-1987 collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (purchased by Arthur M. Sackler for the Sackler Collections from Frank Caro/C.T. Loo, NYC); 1987-1997 estate of Arthur M. Sackler; 1997 collection of Else Sackler (d. 2000), New York, NY (purchased from estate of Arthur M. Sackler); 1997-2014 collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York, NY (gift of Else Sackler); 2014 collection of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (gift of The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation)
Exhibition Information
none
Publication Information
Alfred Salmony, Sino-Siberian Art in the Collection of C.T. Loo [an exh. cat.] (Paris; C.T. Loo, 1933); pl. 9, p. 14.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Informed judgement that works were outside of the country of modern discovery before 1970
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Part of a larger gift from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation that, according to correspondence and documentation on file, was acquired by Dr. Sackler from Frank Caro/C.T. Loo in 1960. Prior to that, it is documented as having been in the collection of C.T. Loo in 1933, and was in the collection of Colonel William Mayer after 1933 but before 1960.