Ritual Wine Vessel (Hu) with Two Taotie-Mask Ring-Handles
late 6th cent. BCE - early 5th cent. BCE
Dimensions
46.9 x 41.8 cm (18 7/16 x 16 7/16 in.)
Provenance
[Yamanaka & Co., New York, 4/22/1941] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (1941-1943), bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 1943.
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