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Bowl and cover from a birth set
Urbino, c. 1540 - 1550
10.4cm (depth); 16.5cm (diameter); cover: 18.1cm (diameter)
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Inside the cup is a scene of three women with a child; around the outside is a landscape. On the top of the cover is an angel with a sword and two women, unidentified but perhaps an Old Testament subject; on the underside is an angel with a pair of dividers. The iconography of these scenes awaits investigation.
These are probably pieces from one of the stacking sets described by Cipriano Piccolpasso in his Tre libri dell
Lent from a private collection. LI192.6
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