Knife-and-Fork Set with Mars and Diana
Knife-and-fork sets were common wedding presents among the elite in Flanders and the Dutch Republic during the 1600s. Pairing forceful Mars, god of war, with virtuous but resourceful Diana, goddess of the hunt, was a gesture to the qualities that couples saw in each other, alt...
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Artifact
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85209
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object
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normalized
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provenance
Hollingworth Magniac Collection, Culworth [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Hollingworth Magniac Sale, Christie's, London, July 4, 1892, lot 671; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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2
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.127 (71.374, 71.374.A, 71.374.B, 71.374.C) |
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ivory, iron