Bowl from a birth set with birth scene and Diana and Actaeon

Perhaps the "Milan Marsyas" Painter
In collaboration with Fra Xanto Avelli da Rovigo

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This footed bowl originally formed the base of a birth set—a series of nesting bowls and dishes celebrating childbirth. Only when the set was disassembled would the domestic image on its interior be revealed. Here, a new mother appears in her bedchamber together with her infant and two companions. The exterior decoration depicts the unfortunate hunter Actaeon, who was turned into a stag by the goddess Diana.

Bowl from a birth set with birth scene and Diana and Actaeon, Perhaps the "Milan Marsyas" Painter, Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), Italian, Urbino

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Bowl from a birth set with birth scene and Diana and Actaeon, Perhaps the
Bowl from a birth set with birth scene and Diana and Actaeon, Perhaps the
Bowl from a birth set with birth scene and Diana and Actaeon, Perhaps the
Bowl from a birth set with birth scene and Diana and Actaeon, Perhaps the
Bowl from a birth set with birth scene and Diana and Actaeon, Perhaps the
Bowl from a birth set with birth scene and Diana and Actaeon, Perhaps the
Bowl from a birth set with birth scene and Diana and Actaeon, Perhaps the
Bowl from a birth set with birth scene and Diana and Actaeon, Perhaps the

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