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Plate with female head and border with trophies

(Italian, born in 1465–70, died in 1555)
dated 1524
Object PlaceGubbio, Italy
Medium/TechniqueTin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) with metallic luster decoration
DimensionsDiameter: 8 in., height: 1 1/2 in.
Credit LineAnita M. Linzee Fund
Accession number46.460
On View
On view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1913, Mortimer L. Schiff (b. 1877 - d. 1931), New York [see note 1]; May 4, 1946, posthumous Schiff sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 98, to Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York; sold by Rosenberg and Stiebel to the MFA for $1800. (Accession Date: June 13, 1946)

NOTES:
[1] He lent the plate to the "Exposition d'Objets d'Art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance" (Jacques Seligmann, Paris, 1913), cat. no. 169.