Dish with Female Bust and Inscription

ca. 1500-1510 (Renaissance)

23 cm 2 cm

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The idealized image of a beautiful woman, generally accompanied by an amorous inscription on a scroll, here “Avi Merec Mad,” meaning “I entrust myself to you,” was a popular subject for Renaissance maiolica. Such wares may have been part of a ritual exchange of gifts between h...

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28524
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J. Seligmann, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1908 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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