Dish with Hercules Overcoming Cerberus

1560-1590 (Renaissance)

33.2 cm 5.3 cm

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The “Twelve Labors of Hercules” are attributed to the ancient Greek poet Peisander (b. 645 BCE), and refer to a series of tasks carried out by Hercules at the service of King Eurystheus. This dish portrays the twelfth and final labor of Hercules, when he captures Cerberus, the...

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A. Castellani [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; H. Wencke Collection, Hamburg, 1878, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, May 11, 1908, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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