The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Lion Aquamanile
1200–1250
Overall: 26.4 x 29 x 15 cm (10 3/8 x 11 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
The handle of this vessel is in the shape of a dragon with a long curving tail.Description
An aquamanile is a water vessel used for washing hands both at church altars and at the dinner tables of upper-class patrons. They often took the form of fantastic beasts such as dragons and unicorns or animals such as horses, birds, dogs, and lions, like this one.- 1919-1966Josephus Jitta, Heiloo, The Netherlands1966-1972(Hermann Schwartz, Ginsterweg, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art).1972-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- May, Helmut. Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz. Köln: Gesamtherstellung: Druckerei J.P. Bachem, 1968. cat. no. D24, abb. 12Swarzenski, Hanns, Peter Bloch, Tilmann Buddensieg, Alfred Hentzen, and Theodor Müller. Intuition und Kunstwissenschaft: Festschrift für Hanns Swarzenski zum 70. Geburtstag am 30. August 1973. 1973. pp. 253-260Wixom, William D., Donald F. Gibbons, and Katherine C. Ruhl. "A Lion Aquamanile." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art61, no. 8 (1974) pp. 260-269 www.jstor.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 57 archive.orgKathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. Reproduced: p. 20; Mentioned: p. 21, p. 61De Winter, Patrick M. "The Sacral Treasure of the Guelphs." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 1 (1985) pp. 113-114, no. 83, pl. XXI. www.jstor.orgEikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. p. 136, repr. p. 137, no. 46Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. p. 147, cat. no. 50Hovaguimian, Vroni. Images and Words. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. Reproduced: p. 101Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Mentioned: p. 126-129; Reproduced: p. 127Mikolic, Amanda. The Art of Handwashing. The Cleveland Museum of Art The Thinker Blog on Medium. April 10, 2020. medium.comMende, Ursula, Michael Brandt, Claudia Höhl, and Lothar Lambacher. Gusswerke: Beiträge zur Bronzekunst des Mittelalters, Regensburg : Schnell + Steiner, 2020, 408 Mentioned: p. 408
- Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).The Age of Bronze, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 7-October 17, 1982).A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981).Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1972.167