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Dumbarton Oaks, formally the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, is a historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was the residence and gardens of wealthy U.S. diplomat Robert Woods Bliss and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss .
The treasure was discovered by local residents. Parts were sold to the antiques dealer Georges Zacos. Other parts were donated the Dumbarton Oaks Museum. During this time Turkish archaeologists carried out excavations in the area and found other silver objects that are currently part of the collection of the Antalya Museum. The Sion treasure ...
The Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure. The Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure is a possibly Aztec scapolite figurine of a woman giving childbirth in a squatting position.Housed in the Dumbarton Oaks collection, United States, the figurine is considered by several scholars to be a pre-Columbian artwork, while others believe it was made in modern times, possibly in the 19th century. [1]
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After giving Dumbarton Oaks to Harvard, the Blisses resided at 1537 28th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Robert Bliss's collection of pre-Columbian art, which had been exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. between 1947 and 1962, was installed in 1963 at Dumbarton Oaks in a new wing designed by Philip Johnson.
The Blisses purchased their home, Dumbarton Oaks, in 1920, and also maintained apartments in Paris, at 4 rue Henri Moissan, and New York City, first at 969 Park Avenue in 1922 and then at 104 East 68th Street. Mildred Bliss was elected a member of The Colonial Dames in the State of New York in 1921.
"Hestia full of Blessings" Egypt, 6th century tapestry in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, 136.5 x 114 cm (53.7 x 44.9 inches) The Hestia tapestry is a Byzantine-era pagan tapestry made in the Diocese of Egypt in the first half of the 6th century. [1] It is now in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection in Washington DC, but generally not on display. [2]
The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (est. 2010) is a series of books published by Harvard University Press in collaboration with the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. It presents editions of texts originally written in medieval Latin , Byzantine Greek , Old English , and the languages of the medieval Iberian Peninsula , with ...