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This work is a desco, a sort of tray used to bring food to a woman who had recently given birth. The tray was usually decorated with auspicious and symbolic images related to the themes of love and fidelity. The uniqueness of the Horne collection’s birth tray is the depiction of the Last Judgement on the recto, presumably to be interpreted as a reflection on the fragility of the existence, and thus how the ideas of death and birth are tightly linked. The coats of arms of the Albizi and Soderini families, on the verso, in fact lead to realating the work with the birth of Giovanna degli Albizi, the daughter of Caterna Soderini and Maso di Luca, who had already seen more than one of their children die.