Late Medieval Netherlandish Lavabo
Stock No
5986
2015
- £1,400.00
- €1,619 Euro
- $1,879 US Dollar
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Item Description
A 15th/16th century lavabo, a hanging bronze vessel for dispensing water over hands in order to wash them before eating or ritualistically during Mass.
Throughout this early period food was likely to be served on a wooden trencher and eaten with fingers and bread as well as perhaps a spoon, and a knife for the meat.
The example offered here, whilst typical in form, is considered finer than most with attractive, zoomorphic, dog-like heads terminating the spouts and well defined female heads wearing wimples for the lugs that would hold the swing handle, now lost. It exhibits a fantastic long-earned colour to the patina with relatively substantial traces of gilding where the spouts meet with the body and, to a somewhat lesser extent, where the flared rim meets with the globular body. These fine attributes comfortably compensate for the lost handle, which in many extant examples is a later replacement.
h:5.5 inches to the top of the female heads 11 inches across the animals heads.
Item Info
Seller
Seller Location
London, London
Period
18th Century & Earlier
Item Location
United Kingdom
Seller Location
London, London
Item Location
United Kingdom
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+44 (0)207 7275263
+44 (0)7831 561042
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