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BARTOLOMEO DI FRUOSINO

BARTOLOMEO DI FRUOSINO FLORENCE 1366/69 - 1441 THE MONTAURI BIRTH TRAY insribed with a date on the lower edge of the recto, QUESTO SI FE A DI XXV DAPRILE NEL MILLE QUATTROCENTO VENTOTTO (This was made on the 25th of April , 1428) ; and inscribed on the verso, FACCIA IDDIO SANA OGNI DONNA CHFFIGLIA EPADRI LORO... RO... ERNATO SIA SANZA NOIA ORICHDIA ISONO UNBANBOLIN CHESULI... A DIMORO FO LAPISCIA DARIENTO EDORO (May God give health to every woman who gives birth and to the child's father... may [the child] be born without fatigue or danger. I am a baby who lives on a [rock]... and I make urine of silver and gold) tempera, gilt and silver on panel dodecagonal; diameter (including rim): 28 1/4 in.; 71.8 cm. recto, diameter of painted surface: 23 1/4 in.; 59.1 cm. verso, diameter of painted surface: 24 3/4 in.; 62.9 cm.