Majolica plaque

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Date:1870

Description:Plaque. 2002.C.446. c.1870.

Earthenware. D : 35 cm.

Majolica plaque by Thomas Kirby of The Roman Soldier, after Andrea Mantegna.

It features the central figure of a man, within a wide border of arabesques and grotesques.

Kirby was the first artist to reproduce early Italian maiolica at the Minton works.

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Donor ref:2002.C.446 (158/20559)

Source: Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

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