Inkstand

ca. 1600 (Baroque)

32.8 cm 12.5 cm

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The flamboyance of this inkstand reflects the growing taste for flamboyance generally in the arts of Italy around 1600. In the 1400s, ink holders and trays for pens were typically simple and often made of pressed leather. By the early 1500s in northern Italy a hand-size bronze...

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Seligmann [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, May 11,1908, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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