Plate with The Heroism of Mucius Scaevola

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Details

  • Title

    Plate with The Heroism of Mucius Scaevola

  • Associated place

    Metropolitan City of Florence (place of creation)
  • Date

    1547
  • Material and technique

    earthenware, tin-glazed (maiolica)

  • Object type

  • Dimensions

    39.2 cm (diameter)
  • No. of items

    1

  • Credit line

    Presented by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1888.

  • Museum location

    Second floor | Gallery 56 | Arts of the Renaissance
  • Museum department

    Western Art

  • Accession no.

    WA1888.CDEF.C410

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Glossary of terms

earthenware

Further reading

Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica (Oxford/Phaidon, Christie's in association with the Ashmolean Museum, 1989), 27

Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, 1 (Oxford/Ashmolean Museum, 2017), pp. 122-125 no. 52

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