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Mortar with the Medici Family Shield
(Baroque Europe )
This mortar is probably from the laboratory of Francesco II, Grand Duke of Tuscany. On the body of the mortar, in relief, is the shield of the Medici family with the crown of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the letters AD 1648.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, no. 301 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Italy (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 15 15/16 in. (40.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.655