Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2010

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Head of a man

1352–1295 B.C.
Overall: 37 x 24 x 22 cm (14 9/16 x 9 7/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Limestone

Classification: Sculpture

Culture: Egyptian

Period: New Kingdom, late 18th dynasty

Accession number: 2009.5491

Provenance/Ownership History: By 1927: Alphonse Kann (b. 1870 - d. 1948), St. Germain-en-Laye, France; January 6, 1927, Kann sale, American Art Association, New York, lot 42, sold for $8000 to H. Woods, possibly working with Joseph Brummer, for the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC [The Alphonse Kann Collection, pt. i. Exhibition and Sale at the American Art Galleries, New York, Jan. 6-8, 1927, No. 42]; 1986, deaccessioned by the Phillips Collection and sold, November 14-16, 1986, C. G. Sloan and Co., Washington, DC, lot 2329; 2009 : Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, NH. 2009, Emmanuel and Argie Tiliakos, Winchester, MA; 2009, gift of Emmanuel and Argie Tiliakos to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 20, 2010)

Gift of Emmanuel and Argie Tiliakos in memory of their parents