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Dish depicting the Reconciliation of the Romans and Sabines

(Italian (Urbino), active early 17th century)
dated 1610
Medium/TechniqueTin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
DimensionsDiameter: 49.2cm (19 3/8in.)
H. 2 1/2 in.
Credit LineGift of Henry S. Hall, Jr.
Accession numberRES.56.52
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
InscriptionsDated on front, in black enamel: "A. D. 1610." Inscribed on back, in black enamel: "ISTORIA . DE. ROMANI/ QVANDO TOLSERO LE DON[N]E/ ALI SABINI E CO[N]. FELICE VITO/ RIA RITORNORNO" [History of (the) Romans, when they seized the women from the Sabines and returned in joyous victory].
ProvenanceProbably Henry Snow Hall (b. 1858 - d. 1938) and Ellen Moseley Wood Hall (b. 1867 - d. 1956), Boston [see note]; 1956, by inheritance to their son, Henry Snow Hall, Jr. (b. 1895 - d. 1987), Cambridge, MA; 1956, gift of Henry S. Hall, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 11, 1956)

NOTE: Offered by Henry Hall, Jr., in 1956 from "a choice of the ceramics in his mother's house on Beacon Street."
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