Blue-and-gold maiolica wine cooler with lion-mask handles and a battle scene painted on its rim.

Wine cooler with Charles V’s Victory at Mühlberg

A double-lobed tin-glazed earthenware wine cooler with two lion-mask handles and blue drapery swags on its body. Painted scenes of armored horsemen and soldiers fill the rim, with gilded scrolls and yellow highlights.

Look closer: Gilded scrolling ornament on the blue band beneath the rim

Artist: Enea Vico
Date: ca. 1560–90
Medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size: 3907 × 2859 px

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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1595).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953

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