Painted by Nicola da Urbino Nicola da Urbino (ceramist) Italian, active 1520s - c. 1537/1538 Panel with the Adoration of the Magi, c. 1525 tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) overall: 22.2 x 16.8 cm (8 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.) overall (thickness): 1.5 cm (9/16 in.) Widener Collection 1942.9.341 On View

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Earthenware, covered on the front and sides and patchily on the back with a whitish, somewhat pockmarked tin glaze. The painting is in blue, green, brown, orange, yellow, gray, black, and white. A break through the Madonna's dress and the kneeling Magus has been repaired and carefully overpainted, and there is some overpaint, flaking slightly, on the edge, particularly around the lower left-hand corner.

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