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Plate with the Israelite women celebrating the drowning of Pharaoh’s army
Conrade Antoine, workshop of
Nevers, c. 1640
44.5cm (diameter)
earthenware, tin-glazed (maiolica)
The subject of this large plate is from chapter 15, verse 21 of Exodus: Miriam (Maria in the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible), sister of Moses and Aaron, celebrates with music the drowning of Pharaoh’s army in the Red Sea. On the reverse the inscription reads: EXODE.XV Maria. d’Aron. Sorella pres.ifaraoni.
Purchased with the assistance of V&A Purchase Grant Fund, Oxford Ceramic Group and the Friends of the Ashmolean, 2013. WA2013.10
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