CIRCA 1570

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A VENICE MAIOLICA ISTORIATO DISH
CIRCA 1570
Painted with the Creation of Eve in a rocky landscape, the reverse inscribed .perche.luomo non./vivese sollo.dono.eva/di lui nata esser sivede/dover Come usita dal sollato.eser.senpre Con/ela aconpagnito
12 1/8 in. (30.8 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

The inscription on the reverse of this dish is based on Genesis 2:18 and roughly translates as 'So that man should not live alone, I give him Eve, whom you can see is born from him as if emerging from his side, for him to be with her forever.’ For a dish attributed to Urbino and painted with the same subject including a very similar figure of Eve see Johanna Lessmann, Italianische Maiolica, Katalog der Sammlung Herzog Anton-Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, Brunswick, 1979, p. 299, no. 390.

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