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| Keywords: Italian - Ewer Basin with Female Bust - Walters 481322.jpg The composition of this basin with a female profile on the central boss and a six-part band of vegetal and geometric ornamentation is typical of earthenware produced in Deruta during the early 16th century There are records of basins together with their ewers given as special toiletry items to young women This basin with an idealized female portrait at center may have served as such a piece ca 1510 1530 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica and luster decoration cm 3 6 31 3 accession number 48 1322 5576 Charles Mannheim Collection Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 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 | ||||
