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AN URBINO ISTORIATO PLATE
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AN URBINO ISTORIATO PLATE

CIRCA 1565, FONTANA WORKSHOP

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AN URBINO ISTORIATO PLATE
CIRCA 1565, FONTANA WORKSHOP
Painted with a bearded elderly man holding a baby, approaching a woman, crouching with her arms reaching out, before a walled building in a mountainous landscape, inscribed to the reverse in blue La santa donna che nutriuahelia/Piange, vedendo morto fuo figuolo: within concentric yellow circles (minor glaze chipping to footrim)
9 1/8 in. (23.3 cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

This plate depicts Elijah resuscitating the child of the Shunammite woman who had earlier befriended him (II Kings 4:8-37).

Another dish by the same hand, and of the same dimensions in the Vatican Museo Sacro, is illustrated by C. Lucches (ed.), L'Istoriato libri a stampa Faenza (1993), pl. 4. Both pieces would have been inspired by Bernard Saloman's woodcuts in Damiano Maraffi: Figure del Vecchio Testamento con versi toscanni, Lyons, 1554.

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