A DERUTA GOLD-LUSTRE BELLA DONNA CHARGER
CIRCA 1500-1530
Painted in blue and enriched in gold lustre with a bust-length portrait of a young woman against a scrolling ribbon inscribed CHI/BE GUI/DA SUA BARCHA E SENPRE IN/OR/TO below a narrow scale-pattern band, the border decorated with foliate panels and panels of scale ornament a quartieri (retouching to her cheek, upper arm, chest and three small areas of the border at 7, 8 and 10 o'clock, shallow chip to obverse of rim at 10 o'clock, chip to underside of rim at 12 o'clock, slight glaze flaking to rim)
16 in. (40.8 cm.) diam.
A DERUTA GOLD-LUSTRE BELLA DONNA CHARGER
CIRCA 1500-1530
Painted in blue and enriched in gold lustre with a bust-length portrait of a young woman against a scrolling ribbon inscribed CHI/BE GUI/DA SUA BARCHA E SENPRE IN/OR/TO below a narrow scale-pattern band, the border decorated with foliate panels and panels of scale ornament a quartieri (retouching to her cheek, upper arm, chest and three small areas of the border at 7, 8 and 10 o'clock, shallow chip to obverse of rim at 10 o'clock, chip to underside of rim at 12 o'clock, slight glaze flaking to rim)
16 in. (40.8 cm.) diam.
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