A PESARO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO DISH

CIRCA 1560, POSSIBLY WORKSHOP OF THE ZENOBIA

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A PESARO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO DISH
Circa 1560, possibly Workshop of the Zenobia
The saucer dish painted with Tobias and the Angel, named on the underside, Tobias shown holding a large fish he has taken from the water, his dog drinking beside him, the angel on the shore with staff in hand
8in. (21.8cm.) diameter

Provenance

Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1971, lot 14, (as Urbino)

Lot Essay

Cf. Johanna Lessman, Italienische Majolika, Katalog der Sammlung, Herzog Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, 1979, nos. 470 (a dish painted with Leda and the Swan) and no. 482 (another of Tobias and the Angel)

The present scene is based upon a woodcut by Salomon Bernard in Jean de Tourne's Figure del Vecchio Testamento con Versi Toscani by Daniel Maraffi, Lyons, 1554

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