Stylized animal head with long pointed ears (ass or mule or onager?), cast hollow to fit over a pole-top and held in place by a tenon through the holes in the lower sides of the neck; there is a loop under the jaw.

Art Oriental, Chambre syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux Arts (Paris, 1925), cat. no. 9, p. 7.

Ausstellung chinesischer Kunst (Berlin, 1929), cat. no. 127, p. 75.

Cambridge Ancient History, Plates, Vol. III (New York, Cambridge, 1930), Pl. facing p. 88, fig. b.

A. Salmony, Sino-Siberian Art in the Collection of C. T. Loo (Paris, 1933), p. 31, Pl. V, 1.

Exhibition of Persian Art, 2nd ed., Iranian Institute (New York, 1940), p. 426.

Bulletin of the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. X, No. 4, Dec. 1945 (reproduction p. 120).

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1955), no. 59.

Handbook of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University (Washington, DC, 1967), no. 89.

Paris, Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et des beaux-arts, "Exposition d'Art Oriental," May 4 - May 31, 1925.

Berlin, "Ausstellung chinesischer Kunst," Jan. 12 - Apr. 2, 1929.

New York, Iranian Institute, "Six Thousand Years of Persian Art," April 24, 1940 - June 1940.

Cambridge, Fogg Museum, "A Selection of Ivories, Bronzes, Metalwork and Other Objects from the Dumbarton Oaks Collection," Nov. 15 - Dec. 31, 1945.

Found in the Crimea (Cimmerian Bosphorus).

Collection of the Comte de Massoneau?

Collection of C. T. Loo, Paris.

Purchased from the dealer Charles Vignier (1863–1934), Paris, by Mildred Barnes and Robert Woods Bliss, November 1923;

Collection of Mildred Barnes and Robert Woods Bliss, Washington, DC, 1923 - November 29, 1940;

Gifted to Harvard University, November 29, 1940;

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