Cup on pedestal in majolica with polychrome decoration a
istoriato representing the meeting between Christ and Mary
Mary Magdalene in the Garden of Olives, four angels under a
on the left, a city by the sea in the background.
On the reverse the inscription Noli me tan gere 1547.
Urbino, 16th century, 1547.
D. 27 cm.
(two chips restored on the edge, a crack of 4 cm on the
the edge)
A dish of the same composition by Xanto Avelli was in the old
in the former Imbert and Damiron collection and reproduced
by Charles Damiron, Les majoliques italiennes, collection
of the author, 1944, n° 93. Another cup of the same subject by
Xanto Avelli, dated 1541 is preserved in the Dutuit collection
in the Petit Palais museum in Paris and reproduced by Catherine JoinDieterle, catalog of ceramics, 1984, n° 73, p. 222
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