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This maiolica dish was probably made at Urbino in Italy. It dates from around 1570 or later. The scene was copied from an illustrated Ovid's Metamorphosis, first published in 1559.

The dish is painted in polychrome with Adam and Eve after the Fall.

The scene was probably inspired by a woodcut from an earlier illustrated bible.

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• Online ID: 000-180-001-086-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland Part 2
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  A.231.4
• Date: Around 1570 or later
  c. 1570 or later
  
• Material: Earthenware. Inscription: A
  Bowl
  
• Dimensions: 78 mm H x 255 mm D
  
• What: Bowl
  
• Subject: Ceramics : earthenware : Italy : Urbino
  
• Who: Adam and Eve (Depicted)
  
• Where: Italy, Urbino
  
• Event:
• Description: Maiolica dish painted in polychrome with Adam and Eve after the Fall: Italian, probably Urbino, about 1570 or later
  
• References:
  • Curnow, Celia, Italian Maiolica in the National Museums of Scotland. Edinburgh: NMS, 1992 
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