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| Keywords: Italian - Plate with Overhanging Edge - Walters 481364 - Obverse.jpg This plate with an overhanging edge is painted in blue pale copper-green yellow ochre manganese grey brown blue-black and opaque white and in gold and ruby lustre At the left a group of buildings is in flames At the right with one arm extended toward the fire is a seated warrior crowned and four companions The man at the left wears a turban and holds a long battle axe In the background are a town and water The back is bluish-buff and is decorated on the marli with four spirals in ruby lustre converted into leaf scrolls by gold lustre additions In the center is 1534 in pale ruby lustre The scene perhaps depicts the burning of Rome in the presence of Nero or Alexander ordering the destruction of the Palace of Persepolis 1534 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 3 24 9 accession number 48 1364 20222 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Date On the back in pale ruby lustre 1534 place of origin Gubbio Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Persepolis in art Gubbio maiolica | ||||
