Imagery from Mariano Eduardo de Rivero and Juan Diego de Tschudi’s 1851 work “Antigüedades peruanas” (Peruvian Antiquities). via the Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfica, Madrid.

Title page. Image 360. Antigüedades peruanas, 1851. Don Mariano Eduardo de Rivero and Doctor Don Juan Diego de Tschudi, authors. Leopold Müller, Vienna, Austria, lithographer. Image © Ministry of Culture and Sport, Madrid. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bvpb.mcu.es/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=469741

Image 378. Antigüedades peruanas, 1851. Don Mariano Eduardo de Rivero and Doctor Don Juan Diego de Tschudi, authors. Leopold Müller, Vienna, Austria, lithographer. Image © Ministry of Culture and Sport, Madrid. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bvpb.mcu.es/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=469741

Image 382. Antigüedades peruanas, 1851. Don Mariano Eduardo de Rivero and Doctor Don Juan Diego de Tschudi, authors. Leopold Müller, Vienna, Austria, lithographer. Image © Ministry of Culture and Sport, Madrid. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bvpb.mcu.es/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=469741

Image 394. Antigüedades peruanas, 1851. Don Mariano Eduardo de Rivero and Doctor Don Juan Diego de Tschudi, authors. Leopold Müller, Vienna, Austria, lithographer. Image © Ministry of Culture and Sport, Madrid. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bvpb.mcu.es/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=469741

Image 412. Antigüedades peruanas, 1851. Don Mariano Eduardo de Rivero and Doctor Don Juan Diego de Tschudi, authors. Leopold Müller, Vienna, Austria, lithographer. Image © Ministry of Culture and Sport, Madrid. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bvpb.mcu.es/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=469741

Image 414. Antigüedades peruanas, 1851. Don Mariano Eduardo de Rivero and Doctor Don Juan Diego de Tschudi, authors. Leopold Müller, Vienna, Austria, lithographer. Image © Ministry of Culture and Sport, Madrid. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bvpb.mcu.es/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=469741

Image 436. Antigüedades peruanas, 1851. Don Mariano Eduardo de Rivero and Doctor Don Juan Diego de Tschudi, authors. Leopold Müller, Vienna, Austria, lithographer. Image © Ministry of Culture and Sport, Madrid. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bvpb.mcu.es/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=469741

Silver aquamanile, ewers modeled as animals or humans. Various countries and makers. All fun.

Aquamanile in the motif of a duck with engraved feathers and a thin belt and a handle modeled as a dragon with two intertwined serpents grasping the back of the duck’s head. Yellow glass eyes and crest. ca. 1800. Austro-Hungarian. Silver with yellow glass. Image © 2020 Sothebys. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/style-orfevrerie-et-objets-de-vertu/an-austrian-hungarian-silver-aquamanile-circa-1880

Pair of silver aquamaniles modeled as standing lions wearing crowns with spots formed as protuding tongues. 19th c. Silver. Spanish Colonial, probably made in Peru. Apparently unmarked. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2020. Fair use license. via https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/a-pair-of-spanish-colonial-silver-aquamaniles-6135757-details.aspx

1600 Silver-gilt war elephant aquamanile with a removable plate on the head, two sinks at the trunk and the tail serving as a handle. The design based on the story of Hannibal who crossed the Alps with elephants. 1600. Made in Nuremburg, Germany. Silver-gilt. Christoph Jamnitzer gold worker (1563-1618). Photo © Karen Bartsch, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin. Fair use license. via https://www.design-is-fine.org/post/105696205539/christoph-jamnitzer-aquamanile-in-the-form-of-an

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