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Dish with a Striding Lion

1500-1550
Artist/maker unknown, Italian
The striding lion may symbolize the city of Venice, famous not only for its mercantile power and wealth, but also for its military power, important at this time for the defense of Italy from the expanding Turkish empire.

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