Pair of clappers
2040–1070 B.C.
Country of Origin, for CustomsEgypt
Medium/TechniqueWood
DimensionsLength: 21.5 cm (8 7/16 in.)
Credit LineMiguel and Barbara de Bragança Fund
Accession number2012.73.1-2
On View
Not on viewClassificationsMusical instruments
ProvenanceBetween about 1905 and 1929, acquired in Egypt by Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Empain (b. 1852 – d. 1929), Heliopolis; by inheritance within the Empain family, Heliopolis and Paris, to his grandson, Édouard Jean, Baron Empain (b. 1937), Paris; April 14, 2011, Baron Empain collection sale, Christie’s (sale no. 6060), London, lot 34, to Royal-Athena Galleries, New York; 2012, sold by Royal-Athena to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 28, 2010)
50 B.C.–1 A.D.
1985–1295 B.C.
1985–1295 B.C.
about 800 B.C.
664–332 B.C.
30 B.C.–A.D 364
30 B.C.–A.D 364