""Tazza"" with St. John the Baptist and a Bacchanalia

16th century (?) 19th century (?) Diam: 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm) Citation Source image

The "tazza" bowl is decorated in high relief in the Italian late 16th-century style with bacchanalia scenes (showing a procession of followers of Bacchus, the Roman wine god). Scholars remain divided as to whether the bowl is genuine or a forgery. In the center of the "tazza"...

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38062
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Joseph Brummer, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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