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Italian, Urbino, circa 1560-1565 | Istoriato Dish with the Death of Aeschylus and a Traveller crowned by a Muse

Lot Closed

December 5, 03:39 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Italian, Urbino, circa 1560-1565

Istoriato Dish with the Death of Aeschylus and a Traveller crowned by a Muse


tin-glazed earthenware, in a 19th-century gilt wood frame

the dish inscribed: Distino to the reverse; the frame inscribed: 1560

dish: 23cm., 9in. diameter

frame: 42 by 36cm., 16½ by 14¼in.

Very Rev. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones (1836-1917), Dean of Gloucester;
thence by descent;
the present owner
See J. Poole, Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1996, no. 336 for other scenes of Aeschylus and the tortoise.