Francesco Xanto Avelli Italian, active 1530/1542 Vincenzo Andreoli Italian Italian 16th Century Italian, 1500-1599 Maestro Giorgio Andreoli of Gubbio Italian, c. 1465/1470 - c. 1553 Plate with Hero leaping to her death from her tower and the drowned Leander; in the center, a shield of arms, 1538 tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) overall (diameter): 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.) Widener Collection 1942.9.337

From the Tour: Italian Renaissance Ceramics
Object 11 of 25

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1982

Sixteenth-Century Italian Maiolica; Selections from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and the National Gallery of Art's Widener Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982-1983, no. 53.

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