This heavily restored lion’s head rhyton was found in the so-called ‘Central Treasury’ in the West Wing of the Palace of Knossos in 1900. As a duplicate of another better-preserved example, Evans was allowed to export this example in a fragmentary state and then had it restored in Oxford.
Bibliography
Evans, Arthur. 1928. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, II, pp. 830-831, fig. 544-545
Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 18