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Acquisition History
Sold by Demotte (dealer), Paris to Raymond Pitcairn, Philadelphia, 1928;
Returned to Demotte in 1931 and sent back to Paris in 1932;
Purchased from Kalebdjian Frères (dealers), Paris, April 22, 1938;
Collection of Mildred Barnes and Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, 1938-1940;
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C., November 1940.