Aquamanile in the Form of a Human Head
German or French, Paris (in fourteenth-century Hildesheim style) · last quarter 19th century
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.