Apollo and the Muses

1555-1585 (Renaissance)

54 cm 41.5 cm

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This platter pictures the Greco-Roman god Apollo and the nine Muses playing musical instruments on Mount Helicon. A nymph reclines in the Hippocrene, the spring sacred to poets, which had sprung up from the ground where the hoof of the winged horse, Pegasus, had struck. Court...

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Dudley Coults Marjoribanks [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sir Richard Wallace [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; George Robinson Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1901, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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