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Maiolica dish: The Departure of Ceyx
Artist: Italian
Location: Ashmolean Museum
Date: circa 1498
Materials: tin glazed earthenware
Dimensions: diameter: 29cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £22,500 (Total: £0)
Vendor: Marquess of Cholmondeley
Review number: 5785 (2006)
Description:
This dish is one of the first maiolica dishes to be painted in the istoriato (narrative) style. The dish portrays a scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 11, in which King Ceyx ignores the pleas of his wife Alcyone and sets out on a voyage on which he will be drowned. It is set within an elaborate border featuring putti, fruit and flowers, vases, and cornucopias.
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