A fine and very rare Romanesque bronze aquamanile, North German, Saxony Circa 1300

cast in the form of a small lion with bared fangs and tubular spout, square-shaped hinge, the handle in the form of a dragon, its head pressed against that of the lion, the front paws grasping the mane of the lion, stipple-chased indication of long hair, square-shaped opening on chest plugged, right front leg repaired and half replaced, rich olive-green patina, belly inscribed in black ink JTR. 213

Leopold Seligmann, Cologne

Mittelalterliche Kunst 1927, no. 136

Literature:
Seligmann 1930, no. 119

Falke & Meyer, no. 459, fig. 429