Wine cooler with A Marine Triumph of Bacchus, ca. 1550–70, Italian, Urbino, Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), Overall: 9 × 19 5/8 in. (22.9 × 49.8 cm), Ceramics-Pottery, During Renaissance feasts, cisterns were filled with cold water to chill fruit or bottles of wine. This example’s decoration with a seascape populated by revelers, aquatic creatures, and the youthful Bacchus (god of wine) in a chariot is well-suited to the cooler’s function
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Wine cooler, Marine Triumph, Bacchus, ca, 1550–70, Italian, Urbino, Maiolica, tin-glazed earthenware, Overall, 9, 19 5/8, 22.9, 49.8 cm, Ceramics-Pottery, Renaissance, feasts, cisterns, filled, cold water, chill fruit, bottles, wine, example, decoration, seascape populated, revelers, aquatic creatures, youthful Bacchus, god, chariot, well-suited, cooler, function
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