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D. von Bothmer and J. V. Noble, M Inquiry into theForgery of the Etruscan Terracotta Warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, papers no. 11, The MetropoHtan Museum of Art, New York, 1961. 

Sunflowers, by Claude Monet (1840—1926), Freneh, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City/Superstoek, Ine. 

His wife, Marie-Anne, studied drawing with the great painter Jacques-Louis David in order to transcribe her husband s laboratory notes and illustrate them. David s ravishing portrait of the Lavoisiers hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The son of Marie-Anne s longtime lover founded the E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Corporation in Delaware. Marie-Anne later married the American physicist, Benjamin Thomson. Later ennobled as the Count of Rumford, Thomson demonstrated the mechanical nature of heat. Marie-Anne had an excellent eye for scientific talent. 

Zimmerman, D. W., M. P. Yuhas, and P. Meyers (1974), Thermoluminescence authenticity measurements on core material from the bronze horse of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, Archaeometry 16, 19-30. 

We are grateful to the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art for permission to sample specimens for compositional analysis. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. BNS76--3397. Aspects of the investigation were carried out under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Energy. 

Figure 4.8 The Crucifixion Corpus Hypercubus), by Salvador Dali (1954). Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chester Dale Collection. 1999 Artists Rights Society, New York. 

T1he elemental composition of ancient silver objects is a potential source of information on the kind of ores used to produce silver, the location of these ores, the ancient metallurgy used to extract the silver, and the trade routes through which they passed. As part of a comprehensive study on Sasanian silver at the Metropolitan Museum of Art we used thermal neutron activation to analyze small samples from silver objects... 

Figure 1. Sasanian silver gib plate showing a king hunting ibexes, late 5th or 6th century A.D. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher...

The authors express their gratitude to Prudence O. Harper, associate curator for the Ancient Near East Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for her many valuable suggestions, her expert evaluation of the objects analyzed, and her continuous interest in this project. 

Beit Mirsim village materials and information. The Mesopotamian samples were provided mainly by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, and by the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. A few samples were from the Hartford Seminary Museum, Conn. 

The second set consists of 11 samples from grisaille fragments in a panel which is part of the collection of the Princeton University Museum of Art (Accession No. 43-65) (Figure 9). Sampling was done when the panel was being releaded. At one time this panel was in the collection of a former curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bashford Dean. 

Figure 1. Open work ivory plaque, standing winged figure with bucket. Height, 15.5 cm width, 7.9 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art accession number 58.122.7. Reputedly from Khorsabad.

We thank Vaughn E. Crawford, Oscar White Muscarella, and Prudence Oliver Harper of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for samples of ancient ivory, permission to sample the Khorsabad ivories, and for stimulating discussions. 

BASF AkticngeseUschaft, 188 Carnegie-Mellon University, 54 Clemson University, 13 Getty Conservation Institute, 108 Library of Congress, 63 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 134 North Carolina State University, 94 Textile Museum, 168 The British Library, 34... 

The authors wish to thank Kim Ellington who carried out many of the experiments reported. We also wish to acknowledge the advice, many valuable suggestions, and encouragement offered by Nobuko Kaji-tani of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Nineteen archaeological pre-Columbian textile specimens from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art were examined. The textiles (Huari/Tiahuanaco, lea, Paracas-Caver-nas, and Paracas-Necropolis) are described. Elemental analyses for archaeological textile and modern wool samples (C, H, N, S, and ash) are reported. Elemental analyses for samples treated with distilled H20 and CClk are compared with analyses of modern wool samples similarly treated. An unambiguous direct correlation between loss of sulfur and embrittlement could not be made. The possibilities of dating and provenance determination by technical means are discussed. 

Specimen Selection. Specimens supplied by the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art were chosen for well documented archaeological excavations. Most of the specimens... 

AMNH denotes the American Museum of Natural History. b MMA denotes the Metropolitan Museum of Art. c Single strands taken from the same mantle. d Samples from same trophy head. 

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