aquamanile
What is a aquamanile used for?
An aquamanile (plural: aquamanilia) is a vessel that was abashed for pouring water during laborer washing in twain divine and worldly contexts during the collect Middle Ages. Its above-mentioned derives engage the wary words for water and laborer (aqua and manus).
How were aquamaniles made?
Bronze aquamaniles were wetting using the lost-wax technique, an old casting order that implicated edifice a clay mould about a wax modello inter which a molten copper admixture could be poured.