MAKE A MEME View Large Image Italian - Soup Bowl and Tray from a Childbirth Set - Walters 481333 - View B.jpg This soup bowl and tray were part of a multi-vessel stacking set that was gifted to a woman at childbirth celebrating the birth--so important to the woman's ...
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Keywords: Italian - Soup Bowl and Tray from a Childbirth Set - Walters 481333 - View B.jpg This soup bowl and tray were part of a multi-vessel stacking set that was gifted to a woman at childbirth celebrating the birth--so important to the woman's status in the family--and her own health The exteriors are painted with a continuous landscape to make the assembled set a cohesive whole while the interior of the bowl and the top of the tray are more personal They depict a bedchamber following childbirth and were seen only by the mother and her servants as she used the pieces for food and drink during her confinement ca 1530 1550 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 10 5 20 2 accession number 48 1333 13007 Octavius E Coope Brentwood Essex by purchase Sale Christie's London May 3 1910 no 39 Jacques Seligmann Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1910 place of origin Urbino 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 Urbino maiolica
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