Small Ewer Basin with Decorative Motifs

1530-1540 (Renaissance)

24.7 cm 3.9 cm

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This basin, painted in gold luster and blue, utilizes three separate elemental decorative techniques: the center features a cluster of Roman arms and armor, known as trophies; the patterns surrounding the central trophy are known as “arabesques,” and were influenced by importe...

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