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| Keywords: Italian - Dish on Foot with the Sacrifice of Noah - Walters 481341.jpg This dish depicts The Sacrifice of Noah after Raphael probably from a drawing engraved by Marco Dente da Ravenna It is painted in blue copper-green yellow ochre brown blue-black and opaque white The subject covers the entire surface Around an altar inscribed with the word SACHRIFIZIUM and on which is a fire Noah and his three sons are engaged in a sacrifice At the right Noah stands with one son who holds a sheep At the left the two other sons prepare a second sheep while two men stand behind with two oxen and a camel The piece has a landscape background On the back the marli edged with yellow bands is covered with a scale-pattern outlined in blue and picked out with ochre; in the center a cartouche with a waved line above and below is inscribed with the date 1524 1524 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 5 5 27 5 h x d accession number 48 1341 13947 J P Morgan date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1925 Inscription On the altar SACHRIFIZIUM ; Date On the back in a cartouche 1524 place of origin Faenza 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 Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review Faenza maiolica | ||||
