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In contemporary images, they are often situated on the floor, besides the table, with servants retrieve bottles of wine from them to serve to the diners. Wine-cooling basins were filled with water, and their decoration often alludes to themes in which water plays an important part, in this case, Diana and her Nyphs bathing.\r\nDuring this time, the potters of Urbino made extensive sets of matching table-wares for wealthy patrons. Francesco Durantino is known to have worked in Urbino before he ran his own workshop at Monte Bangnolo near Perugia. A similar basin in the Art Institute of Chicago, is fully signed and dated: \"Francesco Durantino Vasaro a Monte Bagnolo di Peroscia 1553\"","physicalDescription":"Large oval basin, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours with scenes from the story of Diana and Callisto in a continuous landscape. 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