Maiolica Collection

Plate with the Israelite women celebrating the drowning of Pharaoh

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

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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