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| Keywords: Workshop of Andrea da Negroponte - Plate with the Gathering of Manna - Walters 481514.jpg The Old Testament story of the Israelites eagerly gathering the manna that miraculously fell from the sky thus saving them from starvation was popular primarily as a prototype of Christ's distributing bread to his followers at the Last Supper and therefore of Communion It also offered artists the opportunity to display their mastery of human figures of all ages This plate was most likely part of a larger set of tableware commissioned by a nobleman whose unidentified coat of arms hangs from a tree in the center rear ca 1550 1570 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 5 5 42 accession number 48 1514 27534 Guidi Family Faenza Famille Guidi de Faenza Sale Galerie Sangiorgi Rome April 21-27 1902 n 39 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1902 place of origin Casteldurante present-day Urbania Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Andrea da Negroponte Casteldurante maiolica | ||||
