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Square Dish
This dish features a large reserve at its center showing a landscape with an ancient ruin in the foreground, while four smaller reserves are centered on each of the sides of the dish and feature port scenes. The reserves are framed by elaborate gilded decoration.
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1909 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1]; by bequest to the Walters Art Museum, 1931.
[1]. This dish is visible in a photograph preserved in the Walters Art Museum Archives of display case featuring European porcelains that was taken around the time Henry Walters opened the Walters Art Gallery in 1909.
Geographies
Meissen (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall: 6 5/16 in. (16 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.904