Footed Dish with the Judgment of Paris

Description This footed dish is exhibited to show the decoration of the underside, here with fruit swags, acanthus leaves, scrolled patterns, and fanciful heads, all adapted from prints that were produced specifically to provide models for such ornamental designs. The monogram "P.C." marks this as by Pierre Courteys.

Exhibitions

• A Renaissance Puzzle: Heemskerck's Abduction of Helen. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1993.

Provenance Jacques Seligmann, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1906