Detail of an experimental casting during fettling showing sprue ends and core pins. It also shows the coarse, as-cast surface that preserves the V-shaped incised lines of the mane made in the wax model. Ubaldo Vitali (American, b. 1944), Reproduction of a Lion Aquamanile, Maplewood, New Jersey, 2006, H. 19 cm, after Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion, probably northern Germany, 12th century, H. 19.5 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964, inv. 64.101.1491). See Dandridge, Pete. 2006. “Exquisite Objects, Prodigious Technique. Aquamanilia, Vessels of the Middle Ages.” In Lions, Dragons, and Other Beasts: Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages, Vessels for Church and Table, edited by Peter Barnet and Pete Dandridge, 35–56. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press..