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Cup in the shape of a donkey's head

about 480 B.C.
Place of ManufactureAthens, Attica, Greece
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsLength: 25.4 cm (10 in.)
Diameter: 12 cm. (4 3/4 in)
Credit LineBartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession number03.787
On View
On view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceBy 1903, purchased in London by Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), London [see note]; 1903, sold by Edward Perry Warren to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 24, 1903)

NOTE: According to Warren's records, from an "old collection."
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