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| Maker(s): | Master of the Chigi-Saracini Desco | | Culture: | Italian (active ca. 1510-1540)
| | Title: | Desco da Parto (Birth Tray)
| | Date Made: | 1520-1540
| | Type: | Painting
| | Materials: | Oil, tempera on panel
| | Place Made: | Europe; Italy; Siena
| | Measurements: | Frame: 20 7/8 in x 20 3/4 in x 2 in; 53 cm x 52.7 cm x 5.1 cm; Board: 16 in x 16 in; 40.6 cm x 40.6 cm
| | Accession Number: | MH 2018.20
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Jennifer J. Vorbach (Class of 1978) in honor of Wendy Watson (Curator, 1974-2015) and partial purchase with the Art Acquisition Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
16-sided panel painting and frame. Scene depicting a woman lying in a 4-posted bed, reaching towards a tray next to her, while another woman enters from the doorway on the right, carrying a bowl, and a third sits with her back to the viewer in the foreground, holding a swaddled infant. Other furniture, a mirror, and a painting adorn the interior room.
Tags:
interiors; bedrooms; beds; women Subjects:
interior Link to share this object record:
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