According to Giorgio Vasari, The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, one of the artist’s greatest late works, was painted for the Florentine Giovanni Borgherini. The biographer described the subject of the painting as „the Virgin, an infant St
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Ca. 1911, known and possibly purchased by Ernst Herzfeld, near Tell al-Deylam (ancient Dilbat); by 1914, collection of Frida and/or Georg Hahn, Berlin, who most probably acquired it from Ernst Herzfeld; 1939, left on deposit at the British Museum by the Hahn family; acquired by the Museum in 1947, purchased from Charlotte Weidler, New York, on behalf of Georg Hahn
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Inscription: (in each corner and in center): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified)(on scabbard hanging from man on left): AVE : / REGINA . C[AELORVM] (Hail the Queen of the Heavens [reference to one of the Marian antiphons]) (on dog’s collar, left): OFANGRE (too fragmentary for interpretation) (on dog’s collar, center): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified)
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BottleThis large bottle has a domed profile, a slightly flared cylindrical neck, and a low tooled foot. The decoration is divided into a series of bands. The band on the upper body includes three large medallions, each containing an eight-petaled green-and-red central star from which a complex scrolling pattern radiates outward to create a floral pattern; the outlines are in red, the background is blue and gold, and there are eight alternating pointed elements in red and white
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Inscription: (as in order on object): Exaseru[n]t . senes . / . los suos ut . no[n] . vide / susAnna . et . / . in co[n]cupiscentia[m] / declinaveru[n]t ocu / re[n]t c[a]elu[m] . dAniel 13 [should be Exaserunt senes in concupiscentiam Susanna et declinaverunt oculos suos ut non viderent caelum, Daniel 13] (the old men were inflamed in desire by Susanna and turned away their eyes so that they might not see heaven [Daniel 13:8-9])
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Possibly between 1787-1790, acquired by Sir William Hamilton (British Envoy and Plenipotentiary at the court of Naples), Naples; from the late 1780’s to 1801, possibly in the collection of Sir William Hamilton; 1801-1917, vase and lid probably in the possession of the Hope Family, at Deepdene, Surrey, England (1801-1831 with Thomas Hope; 1831-1862 with Henry Thomas Hope; 1862-1877 with Mrs
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