Rhyton with Boar's Head, Imitation
late 19th century
Description
Imitating Tarentine rhyta of the 4th-3rd centuries BCE
Dimensions
11.91 x 17.15 cm (4 11/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Viscount Allenby; Frederick M. Watkins; Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1959.
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