Maiolica dish with a bust of a young woman, by Maestro Giorgio Andreoli (workshop)

An image of Maiolica dish standing on a low foot. Maestro Giorgio Andreoli, workshop. Painted with a bust of a young woman, a scroll inscribed `MADAL/ENA B' projects on either side of her head'. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed pale beige overall and painted in polychrome and gold lustre, height, whole, 4.7 cm, diameter, whole, 27.8 cm, circa 1530-1540. Renaissance. Umbria, Gubbio.

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Maiolica dish standing on a low foot. Maestro Giorgio Andreoli, workshop. Painted with a bust of a young woman, a scroll inscribed `MADAL/ENA B' projects on either side of her head'. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed pale beige overall and painted in polychrome and gold lustre, height, whole, 4.7 cm, diameter, whole, 27.8 cm, circa 1530-1540. Renaissance. Umbria, Gubbio.

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Accession Number: C.107-1927
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
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Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
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Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2014:02:25 11:48:16

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