Prestige staff

Artist Unidentified

late 19th–early 20th century

Object PlaceSouth Africa

Medium/TechniqueWood

DimensionsOverall: 72 cm (28 3/8 in.)

Credit LineHy and Shirley Zaret Acquisition Fund for African Art

Accession number2013.888

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsPersonal accessories

Collections

Africa and Oceania

ProvenanceBefore 1950, possibly Maria Stein-Lessing (dealer; d. 1961), Johannesburg. By the 1970s, Peter Miller, Cape Town, South Africa; between the mid-1970s and 1980, sold by Peter Miller to Udo and Waltraut Horstmann, Johannesburg and Zug, Switzerland; 2013, sold by Udo and Waltraut Horstmann to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 25, 2013)