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Phallic-Head Plate, 1536
Gubbio, Workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli (?), 1536
Inscribed in reverse on banderole: OGNI HOMO ME GUARDA COME FOSSE UNA TESTA DE CAZI (Every man looks at me as if I were a dickhead); on back: 1536 / EL BREVE DENTRO VOI LEGERITE COME I GUIDEI SE INTENDER EL VORITE (If you want to understand the meaning, you will be able to read the text like the Jews do); also inscribed with painter's mark FR and a pair of scales
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); Diam. 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm)
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Purchased (France, Madan, and Miller Funds) with the assistance of The Art Fund, the Resource / V & A Purchase Grant Fund, and numerous private donors, 2003 (WA2003.136)
http://www.ashmolean.org/collections/highlights/?type=highlights&id=97&department=2
https://www.metmuseum.org/special/art_love/view_1.asp?item=23&view=l
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