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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Hanns-Ulrich Haedeke, Metalwork, The Social History of the Decorative Arts, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London 1970. A similar ewer, but with a zoomorphic spout, is illustrated and described as English, pl.53.
Seymour Lindsay, Iron and Brass Implements of the English House,
Tiranti, London 1970. A very similar example is illustrated fig.127.
Onno ter Kuile, Koper and Brons, Rijks Museum, Amsterdam 1986. A twin spouted ewer for comparison is illustrated and described as Netherlandish, second quarter of the 14th century, page 183, fig.254.
Hanns-Ulrich Haedeke, Metalwork, The Social History of the Decorative Arts, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London 1970. A similar ewer, but with a zoomorphic spout, is illustrated and described as English, pl.53.
Seymour Lindsay, Iron and Brass Implements of the English House,
Tiranti, London 1970. A very similar example is illustrated fig.127.
Onno ter Kuile, Koper and Brons, Rijks Museum, Amsterdam 1986. A twin spouted ewer for comparison is illustrated and described as Netherlandish, second quarter of the 14th century, page 183, fig.254.