Detail from centaur’s chest showing the use of a scorper to define U-shaped designs with the series of steps within each cut corresponding to the strike of the mallet or hammer. Aquamanile in the Form of a Crowned Centaur Fighting a Dragon, possibly Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany, 1200–1225, H. 36.5 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1910, inv. 10.37.2). 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..