MAIOLICA ISTORIATO PLATE - The Embden Collection Venice, workshop of Maestro Domenego, ca. 1560–70. Smooth, slightly bevelled shape. Painted with a household guardian spirit as a naked boy holding a burning torch aloft and a staff in his hand, his head covered with a cloth, in front of a lake landscape with buildings. Yellow rim line. Ø 24.5 cm. Rim chipped. Provenance: The Arlette and Antony Embden Collection, France. A large number of similar plates is in the Collection of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig (J. Lessmann, Italienische Majolika, 1979, Nos. 623-647). * 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.