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Wednesday 19 February 2025 e Thursday 20 February 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Polychrome majolica display plate. Ginori manufacture, late 19th century

Estimate

€ 150 - 200

Sold

€ 516

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

d cm 39.7
the cap and flounce decorated with a mythological scene, the skirt decorated with a blue background band and edged in yellow with a garland motif. Marked, numbered and titled "Glauco e Scilla" in blue on the back.

Glaucus, a fisherman from Boeotia who was later transformed into a god, had a reciprocated love for the nymph Scylla. To get her as a wife, he naively turned to the sorceress Circe who, being in love with him and overcome by jealousy, transformed him into a triton. The dish shows the moment of Scylla's refusal after discovering the new appearance of her beloved