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made at Urbino, Italy

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This maiolica plate was made at Urbino in Italy, perhaps at the Guido di Merlino Workshop, between 1540 and 1545.

The plate is painted in polychrome with the contest of 'Apollo and Marsyas' from Ovid's Metamorphosis. The underside is inscribed 'Apollo & Marsia'.

The satyr Marsyas foolishly entered into a reed playing competition with Apollo and was easily vanquished. Apollo had his fellow competitor flayed to death as a punishment. The woodland gods, satyrs and nymphs and shepherds wept so much at his death that their tears created a spring, the source of the river Marsyas in the ancient country Phrygia in Asia Minor.

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