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Maiolica dish (© Ashmolean Museum)
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© Ashmolean Museum

Maiolica dish

Artist: Italian

Location: Ashmolean Museum

Date: 1542

Materials: tin-glazed earthenware

Dimensions: diameter: 24.1cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £3,000 (Total: £12,020)

Vendor: Rainer Zietz

Review number: 4341 (1996)

Provenance:
Bondy Collection, Vienna; Blumka Collection, New York; Sotheby, New York, Jan 1996.

Description:
Plate decorated with oak branches and leaves moulded in relief with a coat of arms in the centre. Attributed to the 'painter of the so-called Della Rovere dishes', active in Urbino in the 1540s.

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