Cruets from Nagyvárad

Cruets from the first quarter of the 16th century, gilded gold, Hungary. The foot and belly are decorated with a pear and leaf motif, while the leg and neck decoration is made in the filigree technique. Attention is drawn to the long, S-shaped spouts in the shape of a dragon’s head and the floral finial of the lids of the cruets. The vessels were to be made for the cathedral of Great Varadin, one of the burial places of the Hungarian kings (now Oradea in Romania).