Plate: The Justice of Trajan,with unidentified coat-of-arms

Object Name
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1530-1535
Medium
tin-glazed earthenware
Credit Line
The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Object Number
AGOID.29318
Location
AGO, Gallery 114 Thomson European, Central Case

Dimensions

Overall: 4 cm (1 9/16 in.)
Outside: 47.3 cm (18 5/8 in.)

Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription
Inscribed: Si come il figliolo di Traiano correndo/un'cavallo à caso uccise il gifliulo della/ una vedova, la quale al detto Traiano/ mostrando il figlio morto esso sententio che/ il proprio figlio servise la detta vedova in / vecce dil suo [When the son of Trajan, racing on his horse, by chance killed the son of a widow, she showed Trajan the dead boy, and he judged that his own son should serve for the widow in place of her own]
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