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Shallow bowl on low foot with the death of Laocoön and his two sons

Giorgio Andreoli, Francesco Xanto Avelli1539

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States

  • Title: Shallow bowl on low foot with the death of Laocoön and his two sons
  • Creator: Attributed to Francesco Xanto Avelli, Urbino, possibly with assistants; lustered in the workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli of Gubbio, or possibly in Urbino
  • Date Created: 1539
  • Physical Dimensions: overall (diameter): 27 cm (10 5/8 in.)
  • Provenance: Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris; purchased 1908 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased February 1910 by Peter A. B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.
  • Rights: CC0
  • Medium: tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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