Flask
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Coconut, Cork, Leather
Measurements
200 mm (H); 380 mm (Circ)
Place of origin
Italy
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1335945
Summary
Coconut drinking flask, has carved mask around neck and cork bung. Plaited leather strap for suspension. CPW Item 71 (Gallery Room) - 'Carved Coconut flask decorated with figure on horse fighting a lion. Italian.'
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.