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A PAVIA PLATE
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A PAVIA PLATE

CIRCA 1700, MANGANESE AF MONOGRAM BELOW A CROWN, MALTESE CROSS AND CROSSED PALMS

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A PAVIA PLATE
CIRCA 1700, MANGANESE AF MONOGRAM BELOW A CROWN, MALTESE CROSS AND CROSSED PALMS
Painted in blue, manganese, green and yellow with two figures walking through classical ruins in a mountainous landscape, within a manganese band rim, the reverse with a border of foliate motifs (very minor flaking to rim)
10 1/8 in. (25.8 cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

For a plate of similar type in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and a discussion of pieces of this type, see Julia Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 493-495. For other plates of similar type, see Elena Pelizzoni, Marica Forni and Sergio Nepoti, La Maiolica di Pavia tra Seicento e Settecento Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Catalogue (Milan, 1997), pp. 111-124.

The underside of this plate is illustrated at the end of the catalogue.

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