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The Provenance Detective
A #VQRTrueStory Essay
Clock, circa 1890
Makers: Elias Kreitmayer & Matthias Walbaum
Silver and gilded silver, ebonised wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl and ivory, glass
© The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum. London.
Makers: Elias Kreitmayer & Matthias Walbaum
Silver and gilded silver, ebonised wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl and ivory, glass
© The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum. London.
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Issue: Summer 2022 / Volume 98/2
Published: June 27, 2022
Emily Ding’s work has been published in Mekong Review, Slate, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Public Radio International, Al Jazeera, and South China Morning Post.