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| Keywords: Italian - Lustered dish with a female figure - Walters 481741.jpg The artist has created an idealized image of a beautiful young woman with jewelry and long flowing hair She is surrounded by a scroll that translates As long as I live I will love you and after your death my one humble desire is to be united with you I am left at your mercy Such a melancholic and stylized declaration of love was characteristic of courtly society and speaks of the power of beauty to enamor the beholder Painted in cobalt blue and gold-colored luster the plate utilizes the color scheme that Italian painters of maiolica knew from Hispano-Moresque earthenware ca 1510 1520 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica and luster decoration cm 8 7 44 accession number 48 1741 5807 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin Deruta Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Deruta maiolica Plant-scroll ornament | ||||
