Aquamanile in the Form of a Human Head

Unknown

last quarter 19th century · Bronze; Ternary copper alloy with a very high percentage of zinc (approx. 68% copper, approx. 26% zinc, approx. 4% tin), covered with a thin black lacquer patina; traces of cinnabar have been detected on the interior and exterior of the vessel. · Robert Lehman Collection

Artist

Unknown

Date

last quarter 19th century

Medium

Bronze; Ternary copper alloy with a very high percentage of zinc (approx. 68% copper, approx. 26% zinc, approx. 4% tin), covered with a thin black lacquer patina; traces of cinnabar have been detected on the interior and exterior of the vessel.

Culture

German or French, Paris (in fourteenth-century Hildesheim style)

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975