Covered Bowl in the Shape of a Duck

Bowl: ca. 1600; Mounts: 19th century 6 7/16 in. (16.4 cm) Citation Source image

This dazzling carved, polished and engraved covered bowl is amusingly shaped as a duck and would have been judged by contemporaries as a triumph of artifice in the imitation of nature in such an unlikely and difficult material. Contemporaries would also have admired the virtuo...

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37039
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Prince Baucino, Palermo; Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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