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School of Orazio Fontana

How Cadmus Killed the Serpent

c. 1540

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  • Artist School of Orazio Fontana (Italian, 1510–1571)
  • Title How Cadmus Killed the Serpent
  • Date c. 1540
  • Medium Maiolica
  • Dimensions unframed | 1 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.
  • Credit line University purchase, Elizabeth Northrup McMillan Fund, 1967
  • Object number WU 4358

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1967
Hillary Taylor

Inscription [on center of base, in black glaze, handwritten:] Como Caddamu niese il Serpete

Inscription [on center of base, on hemispherical white label, in black ink:] WU 4358

Inscription [on center of base, on white label, in black ink:] Washington U. / St. Louis / 57o

Inscription [on base, near edge, on white rectangular label, in blue ink:] [encircled] 6 [below] 300

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