Maiolica dish depicting the Last Supper. This dish is particularly significant and rare by virtue of its enormous size, representing what seems to have been a fashion in the fifteen-nineties for very large dishes, which must have been virtuoso achievements of pottery and firing.
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Title of artwork, date
Maiolica dish, 1598
Date supported
1990
Medium and material
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Dimensions
62 cm
Grant
4250
Total cost
16500
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