# Ewer with Wild Man Finial [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN GOLDSMITH, German]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Silver, silver gilt, and enamel, height 64 cm ## Commentary Ewer with Wild Man Finial c. 1500 Silver, silver gilt, and enamel, height 64 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The wild man was a mythical woodland creature, once regarded as brutish, but by this time \(c. 1500\) perceived as the embodiment of Germanic strength and endurance. On this ewer, which possibly belonged to Hartmann von Stockheim, German master of the Order of Teutonic Knights, holding the traditional attributes of a club and an armorial shield, the wild man announced and protected the ewer's ownership. ## Related artworks - [Agraffe with a Depiction of the Virgin and Saints]() - [Altar frontal]() - [Amulet]() - [Arm reliquary of St Lawrence]() - [Arm Reliquary]() - [Book cover]() - [Book Cover]() - [Book Cover]() - [Book cover]() - [Book Cover]() - [Bust reliquary of Charlemagne]() - [Candelabra with seven arms]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()