2009.20.9

Object Title
Emerald Bead
Measurements
H: 1 7/8 x W: 1 3/8 x D: 1 1/4 in. (4.8 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm)
Creation Date
3rd-4th century
Credit Line
Gift of John Bourne, 2009
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=80164
Provenance Information
Ron Messick Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1990s, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
Exhibition Information
Art of Ancient America, 1500 B.C.-1400 A.D.. Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe. 1998-2008.; Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Albuquerque Museum of Art & History; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville. 2012-2013.
Publication Information
Reents-Budet, Dorie. Exploring art of the ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2012.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Communications between the Walters Art Museum and the donor of this gift began in April 2005.

48.2790B

Object Title
One of a Pair of Maya Painted Earflares with Profile Deity Heads
Measurements
Diam: 2 5/8 x D: 1/8 in. (6.7 x 0.3 cm)
Creation Date
AD 300-600
Credit Line
Private Collection, 2008
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=78401
Provenance Information
Fine Arts of Ancient Lands, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joyce Strauss, Denver, active ca. mid 1960s-1980s [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Merrin Gallery, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, April 1989 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2008, by gift.
Exhibition Information
No known exhibitions.
Publication Information
No known publications.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Communications between the Walters Art Museum and the donor of this gift began in November 2005.

48.2790A

Object Title
One of a Pair of Maya Painted Earflares with Profile Deity Heads
Measurements
Diam: 2 5/8 x D: 1/8 in. (6.7 x 0.3 cm)
Creation Date
AD 300-600
Credit Line
Private Collection, New York, 2008
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=78400
Provenance Information
Fine Arts of Ancient Lands, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joyce Strauss, Denver, active ca. mid 1960s-1980s [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Merrin Gallery, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, April 1989 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2008, by gift.
Exhibition Information
No known exhibitions.
Publication Information
No known publications.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Communications between the Walters Art Museum and the donor of this gift began in November 2005.

2009.532.1

Object Title
Ring
Measurements
1 in. x 1 in. x 1 in. (2.6 cm x 2.5 cm x 2.6 cm)
Creation Date
4th century B.C.
Credit Line
Gift of Josef and Brigitte Hatzenbuehler, 2009
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/medieval_art/ring/objectview.aspx?OID=170021149&collID=17&dd1=17
Provenance Information
The work was donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Joseph Hatzenbuehler, Houston, Texas, in 2009. Mr. Hatzenbuehler acquired the ring in 2006 from Wolfgang Wilhelm, a dealer or agent in Germany. The seller to Mr. Wilhelm was the Daphne Collection Inc., Liechtenstein and Seychelles, which provided a written statement stating that it had owned the ring since 1988, and purchased it from Karl Albrecht Frickhinger of Germany (b. 1924- d. 2003), a fossil specialist, publisher, archaeologist, who had acquired the work in Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s.
Exhibition Information
None.
Publication Information
None.
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
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has provenance information for this work back to the 1960s but has not been able to substantiate this provenance because it has not been able to confirm the information provided by the Daphne Collection, Inc. The work is one of the most opulent Celtic rings to survive and it fills a significant gap in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of early European material. Coincidentally, the type of decoration on the ring seems to be partly inspired by Etruscan gold rings of the early 5th century B.C. and The Metropolitan Museum of Art has in its collection a likely prototype.
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