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Dish

about 1510
Object PlaceSiena, Italy
Medium/TechniqueTin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
DimensionsDiameter: 10 3/4 in., height: 1 1/2 in.
Credit LineH. E. Bolles Fund
Accession number45.217
On View
On view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
InscriptionsDominus Illuminatio Mea
ProvenancePossibly Matthew Uzielli (b. 1805 - d. 1860), London; April 12-20, 1861, possibly posthumous Uzielli sale, Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, lot 109 [see note 1]. Baron Gustave de Rothschild (b. 1829 - d. 1911); by descent to his grandson, Baron Henri de Lambert (b. 1887 - d. 1933) and his wife, Baroness Johanna von Reininghaus de Lambert (b. 1899 - d. 1960), Brussels and New York; March 7, 1941, Baroness Lambert sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 86. 1945, Raphael Stora, New York; 1945, sold by Stora to the MFA for $1100. (Accession Date: April 12, 1945)

NOTES:
[1] A plate included in the Uzielli sale does match the description of that at the MFA; however, it is not certain whether it is the same object, or another plate from the same table service.
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