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Drinking horn (rhyton) in the form of a deer's head

Drinking horn (rhyton) in the form of a deer's head

about 330–320 B.C.
Place of ManufactureApulia, Italy
Medium/TechniqueCeramic, Red Figure
DimensionsLength: 25 cm (9 13/16 in.)
Credit LineJohn Michael Rodocanachi Fund
Accession number63.472
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsVessels
ProvenanceIn the 1920s: probably in the Paul Gottschalk Collection (according to a letter from Biblion in 2000 concerning the provenance of this vase); by about 1961: with Biblion, Inc., Booksellers, P.O. Box 197, Forest Hills 75, New York; purchased by MFA from Biblion, Inc., Booksellers, May 8, 1963
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