Flask
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
Coconut, Silver
Measurements
170 mm (Length)105 mm (H)325 mm (C)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339730
Summary
Coconut flask, carved with a lion face lion with silver stopper to mouth. Scenes of a centurion slaying a lion and a figure of a god on an eagle carved on it.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.