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Dish with a Portrait of Orsella

c. 1500-1510
Artist/maker unknown, Italian
The B following the name Orsella stands for bella, meaning beautiful. The portrait of the young man on the rim, positioned so that he is facing the young woman, suggests that this dish was made to commemorate a betrothal or marriage.

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