Description The shape takes its name from the configuration of the spout and the two attached handles. Such jars were commonly used to transport liquids. Mycenaean artists adopted the marine motifs from Minoan antecedents.
Provenance Acquired November 23, 1953, purchased from Galerie Segredakis, Paris.
Selected Bibliography "Recent Accessions of Greek and Etruscan Art." 1954. MMA Bulletin, n.s., 13: 60, ill.
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