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Object Name:: Column base
Date:: 14th century
Geography:: Spain
Medium:: White marble
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: Gift of The Hearst Foundation, 1956
Accession Number:: 56.234.26.2

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

[ Raimundo Ruiz, Madrid, until 1923; his sale, Clarke Galleries,May 8, 1923, lot 893; to Hearst]; William Randolph Hearst, San Simeon, CA (1923–d. 1951; the HearstFoundation, until 1956)
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