NETHERLANDISH, SECOND QUARTER 14TH CENTURY

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A brass ewer
NETHERLANDISH, SECOND QUARTER 14TH CENTURY
The bulbous body with flat scroll handle and spout terminating in a stylised animal mask, on three legs - two replaced

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Lot Essay

A comparable ewer with double spout is illustrated in O. ter Kuile Koper & Brons, Amsterdam, 1986, p. 183, cat. no. 254. The catalogue entry also refers to a similar ewer from the Figdor collection. The Figdor ewer is even closer to the present ewer than the Rijksmuseum example. Cf. Sammlung Dr. Albert Figdor, Wien sold through Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 29-30 September 1930, volume V, lot 492, illustrated plate CLXXIX.

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