MAIOLICA ISTORIATO DISH - The Embden Collection Duchy of Urbino, last third of the 16th century. Painted with a woman in a robe from Antiquity handing a key to a Roman general, who is grouped with other soldiers in front of a tent, against the backdrop of a harbor landscape with architecture and figures carrying loads seen from behind. Ø 25.5 cm. Chips to the rim. Provenance: The Arlette and Antony Embden Collection, France. An istoriato plate (Venice) from Stuttgart depicts a similar scene with a handing over of keys and is inscribed “sipion sic africhano” on the verso, visualizing the “magnanimity of the Roman general Scipio Africanus” (Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Inv. No. Maj 7), cf. Lessmann,Italienische Majolika in Nürnberg, in: Anzeiger GNM Nuremberg, 2004, Vol. 22, p. 244, Fig. 9. * The full tax is charged on this item marked *, i.e. VAT is charged on the sum will be refunded to Purchasers providing a validly stamped export declaration.