Keywords: Carlo Antonio Grue - Plate with a Pastoral Landscape - Walters 481753.jpg This plate with a sunk center is painted in grey-blue grey-green and copper-green yellow ochre and manganese and is heightened with gold The marli is decorated with two putti one is asleep a rooster a bird insects and flowers within serpentine leaf scrolls In the center is a landscape with a gnarled tree in the foreground Behind the tree is a bridge on which a woman and child carrying a basket and bundle on their heads are followed by a barking dog The back is white between 1680 1700 Baroque earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 4 5 29 5 accession number 48 1753 18426 Sangiorgi Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1930 place of origin Castelli Italy Walters Art Museum license Baroque art in the Walters Art Museum Carlo Antonio Grue Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |