vocabulary from an art gallery

It's a habit of mine to look up words I don't know, and I came across several unknowns today in an art gallery. I'm noting them here so that I remember what they are. aquamanile: (noun) a vessel usually shaped like an animal or a human, which held and dispensed water for hand washing (mostly for ritual purposes). I was able to parse this as the name comes from Latin (aqua: water, manus: hand), but…