Covered Ritual Wine Vessel (Hu) with Dragon Decor and with Two Taotie-Mask Ring-Handles
475 BCE - 221 BCE
Dimensions
43 x 26 cm (16 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Provenance
[Yamanaka and Company, New York, (by 1941)], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York and Lenox, MA (1941-1943), bequest; to Fogg Museum.
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