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Plate depicting the Suicide of Ajax

(Italian (Pesaro), died in 1560)
dated 1541
Object PlacePesaro, Italy
Medium/TechniqueTin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
DimensionsDiameter: 27 cm.; height: 5.8 cm
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Thomas O. Richardson
Accession number25.306
On View
On view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
InscriptionsAiax che se ucise per larmede achille fatto in pesaro 1541
Provenance1891, George Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1821 - d. 1891), London and Brownsea Island; July 8-19, 1891, posthumous Cavendish Bentinck sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, lot 954. By 1896, Mary Rich (Mrs. Thomas O.) Richardson (d. 1924), Boston and Newport, RI [see note 1]; 1925, bequest of Mrs. T. O. Richardson to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 4, 1925)

NOTES:
[1] First lent by Mrs. Richardson to the MFA on December 30, 1896 (loan no. 2313).



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