Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A GERMAN COPPER BASIN

IN LATE 15TH CENTURY STYLE, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

repoussé decorated with a central gadrooned rondel surrounded by lion masks with fruiting vines interspersed by pomegranates, with gadrooned sides and a narrow rim with punched decoration

36.8cm diameter

Provenance

The Howard Collection of Oak and Works of Art.

Literature

For similarly decorated plates and basins, see 'Bronzes, other Metalwork and Sculpture from the Collection of Irwin Untermyer', pls.107, 108 and 109.