Provenance:

According to past family history, purchased shortly after the 1908 earthquake, near Messina, Italy, for Islesbrook, Strafford, near Philadelphia, by Florence (Allan Edmunds) Heckscher.

Thence to her daughter, Rose-Marie de Foix Edmunds Chapman.  (Rose-Marie's husband Burnham Grosvenor Chapman (1911-1993) was a noted architect and preservationist in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.)

Thence by descent

Acquired from the above by the present owner