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Footed Dish with Battle and Lid with Gods
(Renaissance Europe )
The interior of this footed dish is filled by a tumultuous cavalry fight, based on an engraving after a composition by the Italian painter Giulio Romano (1499-1546). The exterior displays four sirens, whose bodies terminate in double twisted tails. The exterior of the lid is decorated with a lively frieze of reclining gods that is gracefully accommodated to the circular form. Three of the gods are adapted from a famous engraving after Raphael.
Provenance
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Charles Mannheim Collection, cat. no. 171; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, no. 799a; Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, ca. 1917, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1914 | Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1914. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
| 1889 | Exposition rétrospective de l'art français au Trocadéro. Paris. |
Geographies
France, Limoges (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 8 1/4 x Diam: 7 1/16 in. (21 x 18 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, ca. 1917
Location in Museum
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.
44.226