Dish with a Classical Bust

ca. 1510 (Renaissance)

38.3 cm 7 cm

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The central field of this dish depicts the profile bust of a man with a Roman style haircut wearing a fillet and facing towards the left. He appears to be looking intently at a plant with bare branches, perhaps meditating on the cycles of life and death. The profile itself sug...

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28956
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T. B. Clarke [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 632]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1916, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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