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Dark purple bead in form of a negro head

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@ Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) (C.L. Freer source)Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)To 1909Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]From 1909 to 1919Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]From 1920Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:[1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pgs. 1 and 38, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).[2] See note 1.[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
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Glass
Rights:
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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Smithsonian Institution