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Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion
Foundry of Johannes Apengeter · c. 1350
Provenance
Ownership history
- Collection Siljeström, Göteborg, before 1935 [see von Falke and Meyer 1935]. Aronoff Collection, Paris, by ca. 1959 [according to Blumka Gallery, in conversation, 2009]; Paris, Sotheby's, November 25, 2008, no. 19; sold to Blumka Gallery, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2010.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Otto von Falke and Erich Meyer, Romanische Leuchter und Gefässe: Giessgefässe der Gotik, (Berlin, 1935), pp. 76 and 114, no. 473, fig. 445.
- Ursula Mende, Die Türzieher des Mittelalters (Berlin, 1981), p. 99.
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