Ewer Basin with a Personification of the Resurrection(?)

ca. 1580 (Renaissance)

46 cm 6 cm

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In the center roundel of this basin is a seated allegorical figure of a graceful young woman presented as a personification. The branch she holds up appears to be a laurel, though it has been read as an olive branch, a traditional attribute of peace. To her right and left appe...

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28356
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De Courmont Collection [date and mode of acqusition unknown] (?); Seligmann, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, May 11, 1908, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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