FurnitureUnidentified culture1st millennium BCE-1st millenium CE

Lion Head Finial

n.d.

Classification

Furniture

Technique

Cast, lost-wax process

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Unidentified culture

Century

1st millennium BCE-1st millenium CE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

5.6 x 3.6 cm (2 3/16 x 1 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).

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