There is no record of this picture prior to its purchase between 1882 and 1884 by William Graham (1817–1885), a Glasgow merchant, major supporter of the Pre-Raphaelites, and notable collector of early Italian paintings
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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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