Dish with Roman Profile Head ""Chasio""

ca. 1525-1530 (Renaissance)

24.1 cm 5.7 cm

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The center medallion of this dish portrays the profile of a man wearing a traditional ancient Roman toga and laurel wreath. The name “CHASIO” is inscribed in the background, probably referencing Gaius Cassius Longinus (87-42 BCE), one of Julius Caesar’s (100-44 BCE) assassins....

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Private collection, Florence [no. 119]; Sangiorgi, Rome [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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