MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | German_-_Aquamanile_in_the_Form_of_a_Dwarf_Centaur_-_Walters_5462_-_View_A.jpg (850x1182) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: German - Aquamanile in the Form of a Dwarf Centaur - Walters 5462 - View A.jpg This aquamanile or water container is one of the few surviving examples to fill two purposes holding water and providing light The centaur's outstretched hands of the centaur half man half horse would have held two candlesticks The design of the faucet and its little mythological animal handle is of Syrian origin between 1450 1500 Late Medieval bronze H 11 7/16 x L 11 5/16 x D 4 1/16 in 29 x 28 7 x 10 32 cm accession number 54 62 26002 Marquise de Ganay née Ridgway Paris Arnold Seligmann Rey et Cie Marquise de Ganay Estate Sale Paris 1929 Henry Walters Baltimore 1929 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 The Arts of Man Dallas Museum of Art Dallas 1962 place of origin south Germany Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum German art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review House of Ganay | ||||
