Pear (?)

Type Subject
Date 1390-1400

Artist

Attributed to the circle of Giovannino de' Grassi

Media

Manuscript Illumination

Location

Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, MS 4182, LXXXIII

Notes

A man is probably selling barley water to a woman. The barley water is contained in a bottle and a fruit is placed on the mouth of the bottle, almost like a stopper. The fruit, perhaps, could be identified as a pear.

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