AQUAMANILE
In patinated bronze, in the shape of a lion, the tail forming a grip. The head opens with a lid at the top.
Nineteenth-century work in the late 14th/early 15th century style.
34.5 x 29 cm
Accents, wear.
Note. The present aquamanile was cast after a model from Lower Saxony from the late 14th or early 15th century.
A similar example is in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (inv. no. 2494).
Bibliography. Von Falke and E. Meyer, Bronzegeräte des Mittelalters. vol. I. Romanische Leuchter und Gefässe Giessgefässe der Gotik, Berlin, 1935, pp. 115, 191, no. 508, fig. 464.
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