Flask with Scenes of the Caledonian Boar Hunt
This flask is an example of “istoriato” (tells a story) maiolica, as it depicts a story from the Roman poet Ovid’s (43 BCE-17 AD) “The Metamorphoses,” and the Greek poet Homer’s “The Iliad.” According to both authors, Meleager, son of King Oineus of Calydon, led a party of som...
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De Somzée Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 279]; D. Wilhelm von Pannwitz Collection, Munich [date and mode of acquisition unknown], sale at auction of the Sammlung Von Pannwitz, Galerie Helbing, Munich, 1905, no. 255; J. Seligmann [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 10]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, Nov. 6, 1908 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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Italian Renaissance
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