A BRONZE AQUAMANILE 17TH OR 18TH CENTURY Of stylised lion form, scrollover tail handle10.5cm high, 14cm longFor a strikingly similar but paler example of this shape and style of aquamanile, see Sotheby's, Amsterdam, European Collections: Elegant Living on the Continent, 16th December 2003, Lot 968, where it was catalogued as possibly German Romanesque style bronze aquamanile shaped as a lion possibly 17th/ 18th century.