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Plate depicting the Suicide of Ajax
Possibly by: Girolamo Lanfranco dalla Gabicce (Italian (Pesaro), died in 1560)
Italian (Pesaro)
Renaissance
dated 1541
Object Place: Pesaro, Italy
Medium/Technique
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Dimensions
Diameter: 27 cm.; height: 5.8 cm
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. Thomas O. Richardson
Accession Number25.306
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionPlate depicting the Suicide of Ajax.
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).
NOTES:
[1] First lent by Mrs. Richardson to the MFA on December 30, 1896 (loan no. 2313).