Features and textures of the bridle and eyes of the horse’s head were enhanced in the metal with chisel, engraver, and punch. Aquamanile in the Form of a Knight on Horseback, Lower Saxony, Germany (probably Hildesheim), ca. 1250, H. 37.3 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964, inv. 64.101.1492). 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..