id: 146722 accession number: 1972.167 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.167 updated: 2023-12-08 08:34:20.255000 Lion Aquamanile, 1200–1250. Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim, Gothic period, first half 13th century. Bronze: cast, chased, and punched; overall: 26.4 x 29 x 15 cm (10 3/8 x 11 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Chester D. Tripp in honor of Chester D. Tripp 1972.167 title: Lion Aquamanile title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1200–1250 creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1250 current location: 109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture creditline: Gift of Mrs. Chester D. Tripp in honor of Chester D. Tripp copyright: --- culture: Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim, Gothic period, first half 13th century technique: bronze: cast, chased, and punched department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 26.4 x 29 x 15 cm (10 3/8 x 11 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1972 opening date: 1973-02-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: A Cleveland Bestiary opening date: 1981-10-15T04:00:00 A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Age of Bronze, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 7-October 17, 1982). --- PROVENANCE Josephus Jitta, Heiloo, The Netherlands date: 1919-1966 footnotes: citations: (Hermann Schwartz, Ginsterweg, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art). date: 1966-1972 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1972- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS May, Helmut. Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz. Köln: Gesamtherstellung: Druckerei J.P. Bachem, 1968. page number: cat. no. D24, abb. 12 url: Swarzenski, Hanns, Peter Bloch, Tilmann Buddensieg, Alfred Hentzen, and Theodor Müller. Intuition und Kunstwissenschaft: Festschrift für Hanns Swarzenski zum 70. Geburtstag am 30. August 1973. 1973. page number: pp. 253-260 url: Wixom, William D., Donald F. Gibbons, and Katherine C. Ruhl. "A Lion Aquamanile." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art61, no. 8 (1974) page number: pp. 260-269 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152542 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 57 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n77 Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 20; Mentioned: p. 21, p. 61 url: De Winter, Patrick M. "The Sacral Treasure of the Guelphs." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 1 (1985) page number: pp. 113-114, no. 83, pl. XXI. url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159893 Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: p. 136, repr. p. 137, no. 46 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: p. 147, cat. no. 50 url: Hovaguimian, Vroni. Images and Words. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. page number: Reproduced: p. 101 url: Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 126-129; Reproduced: p. 127 url: Mikolic, Amanda. The Art of Handwashing. The Cleveland Museum of Art The Thinker Blog on Medium. April 10, 2020. page number: url: https://medium.com/cma-thinker/the-art-of-handwashing-515bf9ea5343 Mende, Ursula, Michael Brandt, Claudia Höhl, and Lothar Lambacher. Gusswerke: Beiträge zur Bronzekunst des Mittelalters, Regensburg : Schnell + Steiner, 2020, 408 page number: Mentioned: p. 408 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.167/1972.167_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.167/1972.167_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.167/1972.167_full.tif