Mirror Cover with the Fountain of Youth
Originally this ivory plaque was the back for a disk-shaped mirror of polished metal. It is carved with a scene of the Fountain of Youth. Elderly men and women walk or travel by cart from the left to the mythical Fountain of Youth at the right. They bathe and reemerge as young...
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16990
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Count Gregorii Stroganoff, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Léon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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4
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| imageCount | 4 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.170 |
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