Description
This swinging handle, decorated with a leaf pattern in relief, displays snake's heads at the ends. The two holders, with rings at the tops, have faces in relief on the sides.
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 (?)