A rare early 18th century sheet brass holy water bucket, Bruges, dated 1714


With articulated handle, the rim inscribed 'SINT PIETERS KERCK BRUGGE 1714', and embossed with fruit and gadroons, the foot flared and moulded, 21.5cm rim diameter x 25cm high
|Probably made for Sint-Pieterskerk, a church in the former village of Sint-Pieters-op-den-Dijk, but now a part of the city of Bruges, Belgium. The church was founded at the beginning of the 13th century and re-built in 1786.