Dish with the Judgment of Solomon

ca. 1540-1550 (Renaissance)

27.3 cm 5.1 cm

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This ‘istoriato’ dish shows a story from the Old Testament (1 Kings 3:16-28) in which King Solomon wisely judges between two prostitutes each claiming to be the mother of the same infant. On the far right, one mother kneels beside a living child, while to her left, the second...

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22621
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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