Plate with Cupid Climbing a Tree

ca. 1525-1530 (Renaissance)

27.5 cm 1.8 cm

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In the central roundel of this plate, an infant Cupid is shown climbing a tree. This motif does not refer to a specific classical text, but many examples of sixteenth-century maiolica depicted Cupid engaged in various activities characteristic of children, and his presence may...

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Octavius E. Coope, Brentwood, Essex, by purchase [no. 32]; Sale, Christie's, London, May 3, 1919, no. 32; Henri Daguerre, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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