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Lion Mask Fountain Head


Late Roman
4th century
22.3 cm x 20.3 cm (8 3/4 in. x 8 in.)
gilt bronze
BZ.1947.16

Not on view


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Bibliography
C. H. Smith and C. A. Hutton, Catalogue of the Antiquities (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the Collection of the Late Wyndham Francis Cook, Esqre. (Catalogue of the Art Collection, Volume II) (London, 1908), p. 125, no. 98; pl. XXXIV.

Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1947), no. 215, p. 59.

Illustrated, Bulletin of the Fogg Museum of Art, X, 6, December 1947.

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1955), no. 76.

M. Ross, Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Vol. I, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, Glyptics, Painting (Washington, DC, 1962), 49, no. 53, Pl. XXXIX.

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1967), no. 135.


Exhibition History
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, "Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art," Apr. 25 - June 22, 1947.


Acquisition History
Wyndham Francis Cook , Richmond Hill.

Purchased from Brummer, August 15, 1947.

Mildred Barnes and Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C., November 1940.


Object Last Modified: 11/16/2023