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Vessel with lug handles
Early Aegean, Cycladic
Bronze Age, Early Cycladic I Period
about 3000–2800 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Marble
Dimensions
Height: 17.8 cm (7 in.)
Credit Line
Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession Number1977.799
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), no. 004.
DescriptionLug handles on either side and of a class where the shapes of the lugs, the size of the rolled rim, and the profiles vary slightly. Minor chipping at rolled-fillet rim and here and there on body. Slightly yellowish-buff patina.
ProvenanceBy 1976: with Mathias Komor, 19 East 71st Street, New York 10021; purchased by MFA from Mathias Komor, December 14, 1977