The legs on this vessel resemble those on contemporary cooking pots, suggesting that this sturdy jug was used both for heating and for serving. The area around Dinant was renowned for such domestic brasswork, which was then exported throughout Northern Europe.
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Title:Covered Vessel
Date:14th–15th century
Culture:South Netherlandish
Medium:Copper alloy
Dimensions:Overall: 17 3/4 x 10 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. (45.1 x 27.3 x 25.1 cm)
Classification:Metalwork-Copper alloy
Credit Line:Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
Accession Number:64.101.1527
Irwin Untermyer, New York (until 1964)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Arts of the Middle Ages: A Loan Exhibition," February 17–March 24, 1940.
New York. The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Medieval Art from Private Collections," October 30, 1968–March 30, 1969.
New York. The Cloisters Museum & Gardens. "The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages," March 28–June 15, 1975.
The Katonah Gallery. "Medieval Images: a glimpse into the symbolism and reality of the Middle ages," May 12–May 21, 1978.
Aspen Center for the Visual Arts. "Medieval Images," November 25, 1979–January 27, 1980.
New York. Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture. "Lions, Dragons, and Other Beasts: Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages. Vessels for Church and Table," July 12, 2006–October 15, 2006.
Arts of the Middle Ages: A Loan Exhibition. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1940. no. 300, p. 84, pl. LXVIII; misidentified on pl. as no. 301.
Hackenbroch, Yvonne. Bronzes Other Metalwork and Sculpture in the Irwin Untermyer Collection. Irwin Untermyer Collection, Vol. 5. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1962. pp. xlv, 29, fig. 131, pl. 120.
Gómez-Moreno, Carmen. Medieval Art from Private Collections: A Special Exhibition at The Cloisters, October 30, 1968 through January 5, 1969. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968. no. 108.
Husband, Timothy B., and Jane Hayward, ed. The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. no. 17, p. 33.
Gómez-Moreno, Carmen, ed. Medieval Images: A Glimpse into the Symbolism and Reality of the Middle Ages. Katonah: Katonah Museum of Art, 1978. no. 25, pp. 9, 19–20.
Lockner, Hermann P. Messing: ein Handbuch über Messinggerät des 15.-17. Jahrhunderts. Munich: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1982. pp. 99–100, fig. 157.
Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Anna-Elisabeth. Mittelalterliche Bronze- und Messinggefässe: Eimer, Kannen, Lavabokesse. Bronzegeräte des Mittelalters, Vol. 4. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1988. no. 258, pp. 180–1, 238, 290.
Barnet, Peter, and Pete Dandridge, ed. Lions, Dragons, & Other Beasts: Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages, Vessels for Church and Table. New York: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, 2006. no. 54, p. 189.
Dandridge, Pete. "Exquisite Objects, Prodigious Technique: Aquamanilia, Vessels of the Middle Ages." In Lions, Dragons, & Other Beasts: Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages, Vessels for Church and Table, edited by Peter Barnet, and Pete Dandridge. New York: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, 2006. no. 54, p. 54.
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