Category Archive 'Glatisant the Questing Beast'

05 Aug 2024

Experts Can Be Wrong!

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The Metropolitan Museum describes this wonderful object thusly:

Title: Aquamanile in the Form of a Crowned Centaur Fighting a Dragon

Date: 1200–1225

Geography: Made in possibly Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany

Culture: German

Medium: Copper alloy

Dimensions: Overall: 14 3/8 x 13 3/4 x 5 in., 8.347lb. (36.5 x 34.3 x 12.7 cm, 3786g)
Overall PD: 14 3/8 (at front feet) x 5 x 13 3/4 in. (36.5 (at front feet) x 12.7 x 35 cm)

Classification: Metalwork-Copper alloy

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1910

Accession Number: 10.37.2

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Important to know:

An aquamanile is a jug or ewer used to pour water for the washing of hands over a basin.

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But the description is wrong. In reality, it is King Pellinore riding, or merely combined with, Glatisant, the Questing Beast, who has the head of a snake, the body of a leopard, the haunches of a lion (lacking here), and the feet of a hart, from the Medieval Arthurian stories.


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