FurnitureUnidentified culture1st millennium BCE-1st millenium CE
Lion Head Finial
n.d.
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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