Broth bowl and cover (scodella and tagliere) from an accouchement set; Aeneas leaving Troy with his father and son (inside bowl); Pyramis and Thisbe (on cover), ca. 1530–40, Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm); Diam. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm), Ceramics-Pottery, Baldassare Manara (Italian, Faenza, active first half 16th century), Baldassare Manara was one of the principal ceramics artists active in Faenza, working in a productive and well-documented shop. These two pieces of a maiolica set, produced on the occasion of childbirth, are highly unusual for their complex classical imagery and their elaborate inscriptions
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Broth bowl, cover, scodella, tagliere, accouchement set, Aeneas leaving Troy, father, son, inside, Pyramis, Thisbe, ca, 1530–40, Maiolica, tin-glazed earthenware, H, 4 1/8, 10.5 cm, Diam, 7 3/4, 19.7, Ceramics-Pottery, Baldassare Manara, Italian, Faenza, active first half 16th century, principal ceramics, artists, active, working, productive, well-documented shop, two pieces, maiolica, produced, occasion, childbirth, highly unusual, complex classical, imagery, elaborate inscriptions
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