Detail of a flame handle with the marks of two different files visible across the surface. The red accretions within the incised lines are residues of a polishing compound utilized at some point in the object’s history. Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion, Nuremberg, Germany, ca. 1400, H. 31.9 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1994, inv. 1994.244). 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..