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Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Mirror
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
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Mirror

DepartmentAncient Mediterranean Art
CultureEgyptian
Dateca. 2055-1650 BC
MediumBronze and bone
Dimensions8 1/4 × 5 9/16 in. (21 × 14.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number86.138.255
GeographyDescriptionA mirror consisting of a bronze disk attached by a tang to a bone handle. The lower end of the handle is lost.ProvenanceBy purchase, the Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986
On view
Collections
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Mirror depicting a winged female figure
Culture: Etruscan
3rd century B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Mirror with a Bust of Hathor
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 1550-1295 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Mirror depicting two youths
Culture: Etruscan
4th-3rd century B.C.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Cosmetic Implement
Culture: Egyptian
ca. 1550-1069 BC
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins.
Dagger (Pesh-kabz) with sheath
Culture: Indian or Persian
19th century
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Mexican Folk Art Collection.
Saddle
ca. 1922-1923
Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Ladle with duck-head Terminus
Culture: Greek
ca. 4th-3rd century B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, The D. Joseph Judge, MD Collection donated by the Judge Family.
Mirror Handle
Unknown
Culture: Chimú
ca. A.D. 900-1200
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins
Whetstone Handle in the Form of an Ibex
Culture: Iranian
ca. 800 B.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Dagger
Culture: Iranian
9th-8th century B.C.
Image Not Available for Hairpin
Hairpin
Culture: Roman
1st-4th century A.D.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Incense Burner in the form of a Woman
Culture: Roman
2nd-3rd century A.D.

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