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| Keywords: Italian - Ewer Basin with a Standing Saint - Walters 481501.jpg This ewer-basin is painted in blue yellow ochre and copper-green The marli is ochre with longitudinal decoration of masks palmettes vases and birds There is a gadrooned hollow in reserve with vertical leaf-motifs alternatingly red and blue The center in ochre is decorated with masks palmettes and leaf-scrolls A painted bead and reel border surrounds the central boss on which is the standing figure of a saint in a landscape with S crossed by a paraph and SI The back has a radial ring of large petals that covers the marli and the hollow striped with blue ochre and green; in the center the letters S and CE in blue outlines are crossed by paraphs; the surrounding spaces are filled by blue line scrolls ca 1510 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 5 5 40 5 accession number 48 1501 29775 Jacques Seligmann Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1912 Inscription On front S; Inscription On front SI; Inscription On back S; Inscription On back CE place of origin Siena 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 Siena maiolica | ||||
