Dish for nuts or small fruits
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![Per tal variare Natura e bella. (Through such variety nature is beautiful.) Alea parva Nuces, et non damnosa videtur: Saepe tamen pueris abstulit illa nates. (Gambling with nuts is thought a harmless game; but it has often raised the boys’ buttocks [=boys have been beated on the buttocks]), part II, plate 12, from "Archetypa Studiaque Patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"](/internal/media/dispatcher/16933/thumbnail)
Dish for nuts or small fruits
Maker
Greek
DateTroy II period
MediumClay
Dimensionsoverall: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm
ClassificationDECORATIVE ARTS
Credit LineGift of Richard R. Wagner
Object number1965.50.f
Status
Not on viewRightsCopyright is retained in accordance with U.S. Copyright laws
Photo creditDavis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Arthur J. Stone
Greek
Greek
Greek
possibly Jacob HoefnagelTheodor de Bry (and possibly workshop)after Joris Hoefnagel
published 1592