Collector

Henry Walters

1848–1931 · United States

Art collector. Collected at Dali (Idalion). Bought from Dikran Garabed Kelekian; left a bequest to Walters Art Museum.

Life and work

22 June 1909
Bought from Dikran Kelekian a scarab with a centaur and two lions (Walters 42.157), which Kelekian had acquired at the Newton-Robinson sale at Christie's, London, on 22 June 1909 (lot 14, catalogued as from Idalion).
BaltimoreScarab with a Centaur…
1929
Bought nine Cypriot gold plaques with goddesses and ibexes (57.968) and the companion plaques 57.969 from Galerie Bachstitz, The Hague, which had them from the Schiller sale at Lepke, Berlin, March 1929 (lot 106).
BaltimorePlaques with Goddesses and…Plaques with Goddesses and…
1931
The Walters museum records give 'Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest' for these pieces; the record for cylinder seal 42.811 instead has the collection passing to his widow Sadie Jones in 1931 by inheritance (see .md).
Plaques with Goddesses and…Scarab with a Centaur…

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Scarab with a centaur and two lions, set in a silver swivel ring, green basalt, 6th c. BCE
From Dali (Idalion)Walters Art Museum, Baltimore 42.1571909Scarab with a Centaur…
Nine gold plaques with goddesses and ibexes, 8th-7th c. BCE (Cypriot)
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore 57.9681929Plaques with Goddesses and…
Gold plaques with goddesses and floral elements, 8th-7th c. BCE (Cypriot)
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore 57.9691929Plaques with Goddesses and…

1.“Plaques with Goddesses and Ibexes, Walters Art Museum 57.968”. Walters Art Museum. Online
2.“Plaques with Goddesses and Floral Elements, Walters Art Museum 57.969”. Walters Art Museum.
3.“Scarab with a Centaur and Two Lions Set in a Swivel Ring, Walters Art Museum 42.157”. Walters Art Museum. Online
4.“Henry Walters (Wikidata Q1607379 / GND 119348357)”. Wikidata. Online
5.“Walters, Sarah Wharton Green Jones (1859-1943), GND 1217686568”. Wikidata / GND.
6.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.