Small Dish with Saint Jerome

Description This small dish is painted in gold and ruby lustre and in blue and copper-green. It is moulded in relief. The hollow is decorated with serrated leaves set obliquely, a bud surmounted by a horizontal leaf is between each. In the center, St. Jerome kneels on one knee beside the cross with the lion lying at his right. The back is bluish-buff and marked in ruby lustre with an "F," in the center, surrounded by crooks irregularly spaced on the marli.

Provenance Jacques Seligmann, Paris [date of acqusition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1912