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| Keywords: Spanish - Ceiling Tile with a Hare - Walters 48210612.jpg As duke of Segorbe after 1478 Spanish Crown Prince Enrique de Aragon y Sicilia 1445-1522 was also lord of the nearby towns of Paterna and Manises centers of flourishing ceramic manufacture from the taxation of which he derived handsome profit The residence of the duke's representative in Paterna was appropriately known as the Tax House Casa del Delme Some two hundred ceiling tiles this one possibly among them decorated the building until they were sold and dispersed in 1924 The rabbit on it refers to hunting a pastime reserved for aristocrats ca 1513 Early Modern earthenware with glaze and paint cm 35 4 43 8 3 accession number 48 2106 12 27977 Casa del Delme 13 calle Mayor Paterna Sale 1924 William R Hearst San Simeon California ca 1930 by purchase Hearst estate 1951 by bequest inv 2597 lot s/b 569 no 49 Walters Art Museum 1958 by purchase Museum purchase 1958 Realms of Faith Medieval and Byzantine Art from the Walters Art Museum Museum of Biblical Art New York; Colby College Museum of Art Waterville; Joslyn Art Museum Omaha 2008-2009 place of origin Paterna Spain Walters Art Museum license Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Ceramics in the Land of Valencia Socarrat Tiles Spanish maiolica | ||||
