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| Keywords: Italian - Dish with a Roman Emperor in Profile - Walters 481321.jpg This dish is painted in gold lustre and in blue with a scale-pattern around the rim In the center is the left profile bust of an unidentified Roman Emperor wearing a laurel wreath and facing a scroll inscribed HOM PRE/PON IT E DvS DSPNIT Man proposes God disposes The back has a greenish-yellow glaze with a double X in the center scratched through the glaze ca 1525 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 7 5 39 5 accession number 48 1321 19655 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Transcription On a scroll on the front HOM PRE/PON IT E DvS DSPNIT; Translation On a scroll on the front Man proposes God disposes; Inscription On the back sctratched through the glaze XX I Claudius Art in the Age of Julio-Claudians The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1977-1978 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 | ||||
