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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
ClassificationsCeramicsPotteryEarthenware

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).