Cover to Jar (statuette of a lion)
CultureRoman
Date300 B.C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 4 7/16 × 7 × 4 inches (11.27 × 17.78 × 10.16 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number49-32
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionPanther standing on a flat cover.ProvenanceWith the art market, Rome, Italy, July 24, 1939 [1];
With Luigi Cigliano, Rome, by December 1949;
Purchased from Cigliano, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1949.
NOTES:
[1] A photograph of this object is included in the 1939-1940 Inventory Book for the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut - Rome's photo archive as photo no. 898 and negative no. 39.578. The disk is recorded as being on the Roman art market at the time, having come from Bulgaria. A copy of the photograph and the inventory book are in the Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
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