Interior detail showing the protruding tip of a surviving core pin that was fused to the surrounding metal. Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion, Germany (Lower Saxony), late 13th–early 14th century, H. 21.0 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964, inv. 64.101.1490). 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..