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  1. North German ca. 1200, A North German bronze aquamanile, around 1200, Cast, engraved, and chased bronze with remnants of gilding. This hollow, thin-walled vessel in the form of a lion was made using lost-wax casting technique and originally served in the liturgical washing of the priest's hands during Mass. The design of the aquamanile allows it to be grouped together with a series of eleven further lion aquamaniles which the research of Otto von Falke and Erich Meyer (op. cit.) has dated to the time around 1200 and assigned to a north German workshop, most likely in Lübeck. Today, the pieces are housed in various museums, the majority in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, the British Museum in London, the National Museum in Copenhagen and the Aachen Cathedral Treasury. X-ray fluorescence analysis carried out in 2021 has shown that this lion, which comes from private ownership, is made from an alloy of bronze, copper, tin and lead and shows no indication being created in the post-Medieval period. The amounts of the various metals used in the alloy also correspond to that of another lion aquamanile from the group of works compiled by Falke and Meyer now housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (inv. no. KG 491, cf. Otto Werner: Analysen mittelalterlicher Bronzen und Messinge. Part IV, Berlin 1981, p. 186, analysis no. 238). Minor breakages to the back, with small rectangular repairs of the period. A large oval addition to the underside of the body, also of the period. The cap on the upper part of the head lacking, there presumably a small addition to the rim of the opening. Surface abrasions and minor dentsA North German bronze aquamanile, around 1200Lempertz · €70,560≈ $76,671≈ £60,576Sign up to see

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  1. North German ca. 1200, A North German bronze aquamanile, around 1200, Cast, engraved, and chased bronze with remnants of gilding. This hollow, thin-walled vessel in the form of a lion was made using lost-wax casting technique and originally served in the liturgical washing of the priest's hands during Mass. The design of the aquamanile allows it to be grouped together with a series of eleven further lion aquamaniles which the research of Otto von Falke and Erich Meyer (op. cit.) has dated to the time around 1200 and assigned to a north German workshop, most likely in Lübeck. Today, the pieces are housed in various museums, the majority in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, the British Museum in London, the National Museum in Copenhagen and the Aachen Cathedral Treasury. X-ray fluorescence analysis carried out in 2021 has shown that this lion, which comes from private ownership, is made from an alloy of bronze, copper, tin and lead and shows no indication being created in the post-Medieval period. The amounts of the various metals used in the alloy also correspond to that of another lion aquamanile from the group of works compiled by Falke and Meyer now housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (inv. no. KG 491, cf. Otto Werner: Analysen mittelalterlicher Bronzen und Messinge. Part IV, Berlin 1981, p. 186, analysis no. 238). Minor breakages to the back, with small rectangular repairs of the period. A large oval addition to the underside of the body, also of the period. The cap on the upper part of the head lacking, there presumably a small addition to the rim of the opening. Surface abrasions and minor dents
    A North German bronze aquamanile, around 1200
    Sculpture · Paper
    18.5 x 9 x 21 cm
    Lempertz · · Lot 1072
    €70,560≈ $76,671≈ £60,576Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. €50,000–60,000View at Lempertz ↗
  2. North German ca. 1200, A North German bronze aquamanile, around 1200, Cast, engraved, and chased bronze with remnants of gilding. This hollow, thin-walled vessel in the form of a lion was made using lost-wax casting technique and originally served in the liturgical washing of the priest's hands during Mass. The design of the aquamanile allows it to be grouped together with a series of eleven further lion aquamaniles which the research of Otto von Falke and Erich Meyer (op. cit.) has dated to the time around 1200 and assigned to a north German workshop, most likely in Lübeck. Today, the pieces are housed in various museums, the majority in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, the British Museum in London, the National Museum in Copenhagen and the Aachen Cathedral Treasury. X-ray fluorescence analysis carried out in 2021 has shown that this lion, which comes from private ownership, is made from an alloy of bronze, copper, tin and lead and shows no indication being created in the post-Medieval period. The amounts of the various metals used in the alloy also correspond to that of another lion aquamanile from the group of works compiled by Falke and Meyer now housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (inv. no. KG 491, cf. Otto Werner: Analysen mittelalterlicher Bronzen und Messinge. Part IV, Berlin 1981, p. 186, analysis no. 238). Minor breakages to the back, with small rectangular repairs of the period. A large oval addition to the underside of the body, also of the period. The cap on the upper part of the head lacking, there presumably a small addition to the rim of the opening. Surface abrasions and minor dents
    A North German bronze aquamanile, around 1200
    Sculpture · Paper
    18.5 x 9 x 21 cm
    Lempertz · · Lot 2092
    Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. €80,000–100,000View at Lempertz ↗

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1 of 2 recorded lots sold between 2023 and 2024.

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Lempertz accounts for the most recorded results. Lempertz