Soup Bowl and Tray from a Childbirth Set

ca. 1530-1550 (Renaissance)

20.2 cm 10.5 cm

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This soup bowl and tray were part of a multi-vessel stacking set that was given to a woman at childbirth. The dishes celebrated the birth of a child—an important occasion that heavily influenced a woman’s status in the family—as well as the health of the new mother. The exteri...

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Octavius E. Coope, Brentwood, Essex, by purchase; Sale, Christie's, London, May 3, 1910, no. 39; Jacques Seligmann, Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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