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Lot 1601 Dα

A rare Gothic bronze faucet

Auction 1096 - overview Cologne
17.11.2017, 18:00 - Selected Works
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 5.580 € (incl. premium)
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A rare Gothic bronze faucet

The spout formed as the head of an animal (possibly a dog or wolf), the pipe octagonal and with a T-form tap. H 22, L 36.5 cm.
South German, possibly Nuremberg, 1st half 16th C.

Literature

Cf. a small barrel faucet with a ram's head spout from Nuremberg, from the mid-16th century, formerly the Figdor Collection, now in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (in: Pechstein, Bronzen und Plaketten, Berlin 1968, no. 17).
This kind of stylised animal head can also be found in vessels generally localised to Nuremberg (cf.: Mende, Die mittelalterlichen Bronzen im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 2013, no. 109).