Lion's Head Finial

Description The handle is oval in section and has a lion's head summarily carved at its end. Diagonal lines form a chevron pattern on its sides to assure a better grip. The blade is missing but was once well seated in a deep and vertical slot at the base of the handle.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
8/18/1982	Treatment	cleaned; examined for condition

Provenance Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902