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Dish with an angel
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
At centre of this dish is an angel holding a globe. The rest of the dish is decorated with grotesques. These fanciful decorations based on human, animal and plant forms became popular during the Italian Renaissance. The Haarlem maker had probably seen them on maiolica from Tuscany and Urbino, which had come to the Netherlands through the international trade.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineDish with an angel. c. 1640 - c. 1660. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
