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| Keywords: German - Flask for Priming Power with the Justice of Trajan - Walters 511334 - Back.jpg The fine relief represents the emperor Trajan AD 98-117 setting out on horseback from Rome who is approached by a poor widow who calls out To Trajan I appeal for justice Her only son had been murdered and she was unable to obtain justice Having established the truth of her story Trajan satisfied her appeal His concern for justice was admired in his own and later times A pennant with the Habsburg imperial double-headed eagle carried here by one of the emperor's guards is meant to suggest that the Habsburgs as Holy Roman Emperors are the political descendants of the ancient Roman emperors and are as concerned with justice as was Trajan The use of a finely wrought relief for a flask suggests that it was meant as a present given the imagery perhaps even for the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Charles V 1500-1558 The relief also exists as an independent plaque and the same artist made other plaques but his name remains unknown between 1530 1550 Renaissance gilded copper alloy cm 9 13 5 accession number 51 1334 15217 Freiherr Adalbert von Lanna 1867-1909 Prague von Lanna Sale Berlin 1909 part II Miller von Aicholz Vienna date and mode of acquisition unknown Castiglione Vienna date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale Amsterdam 1925 S J Whawell London date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale Sotheby's London May 3-6 1927 lot 295 Henri Daguerre Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1927 place of origin Augsburg Germany Walters Art Museum license Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Weapons in the Walters Art Museum German art in the Walters Art Museum Gunpowder flasks | ||||
