Plate (piatto): The story of Aeneas, Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo, 1532

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Plate (piatto): The story of Aeneas, 1532, Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), Diameter: 11 5/8 in. ( cm), Ceramics-Pottery, Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo (Italian, Rovigo ca7–1542), This splendid plate formed part of one of the largest majolica services ever made, commissioned by Piero Maria Pucci (1467–1547) of Florence, whose arms are visible at the center. Highly distinguished in the first half of the sixteenth century, Pucci family members served under the Medici popes Leo X (r

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Size: 3485px × 3500px
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