Platter with Alexander and Porous after the Battle of Hydaspes

1700-1710 (Baroque)

68.5 cm 7.5 cm

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The scene represented on this large round platter is the encounter of the victorious Macedonian King Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE) and the wounded and defeated Indian King Porus on the banks of the Hydaspes River. The battle is described by numerous Greek historians, inclu...

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Hermann Emden, Hamburg [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase [no. 78]; Sale, Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, November 3, 1908, no. 76; Jacques Seligmann, Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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