Title: Aquamanile in the Form of a Human Head
Object type: Aquamanile
Date: last quarter 19th century
Culture: German or French, Paris (in fourteenth-century Hildesheim style)
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.
Dimensions: H. 22.1 cm, w. 18.6 cm, l. 18.5 cm, wt. 2514 g.
Classification: Metalwork-Bronze
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Heads