c. 1961
40.6 x 37.2 x 9 cm (16 x 14 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hazen, New York, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962.
Bronze, with damascened overlays of cut sheet silver, the bronze with induced gunmetal gray surface color
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