Tub-shaped cooling vessel on three legs. The object composed of many parts consists of a tub with two handles placed on three (!) Legs. The molded legs have the shape of a lion's head on a claw leg, the molded handles are both designed as two mutually entangling hoses, whose heads rest on the edge of the tub. The cockpit is composed of twenty staves. They are held together by three pairs of bands, the ends of which are developed with copper wire. The ends are arranged so that those of the lower and upper pair of straps are located just at the height of the leg below the center of the tub wall between the two handles, and the end of the middle pair of tires on the center of the other wall half. On the outside of the cockpit, vertical strips have been applied to the pigeon seams insofar as it concerns the part between the lower and the middle pair of tires., anonymous, Netherlands, c. 1600 - c. 1650, brass (alloy), h 36 cm × h 24 cm × d 66.5 cm × w 74 cm
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