Fragment: bird

9th-10th century

Watercolor on vellum

5 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (13.97 x 13.34 cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

55.125

Provenance: [J. Khawam & Cie, Cairo, Egypt]; purchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum / Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle, Washington, April 29, 1955

Not currently on view

Resources

Published ReferencesThe Art Quarterly, Winter 1955, p. 403

Bacharach, Jere L., "Data Bank Uses: Examples from the Seattle Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art", ARTS AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD, v. 4, no. 4: p. 45-47, Autumn-Winter 1987/8.

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