Description: TORNIELLO Augustino, 1625 Holland
Caption: Detailed description two Brazen Lavers. The laver was a great bowl or basin of polished brass, thus giving the effect of a mirror. From an uncommon edition of Kerckelycke Historie van Neder-Landt which was a Dutch text edition of Agostino Torniello’s Annales Sacri et Profani by Heribertus Rosweydus (Utrecht, 1569 – Antwerp, 1629). 10.6 x 14.0 inch