Ewer Basin Depicting Five Scenes from Genesis

1563 (Renaissance) Diam: 18 1/8 in. (46 cm) Citation Source image

This ewer stand would have ben accompanied by a ewer or pitcher. The five scenes separated by trees or rocks are from Genesis: God creating Eve from the rib of Adam, God introducing Adam and Eve to the Garden of Eden, the Original Sin, Cain killing Abel, followed by (rather th...

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Marquis of Salamanca [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, London, April 14, 1874, lot 279; Frederic Spitzer [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Paris, April 17-June 16, 1893, lot 501; Charles Stein [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Paris, June 8-10, 1899, lot 22; Seligmann Brothers, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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