AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA DATED BELLA DONNA DISH
PERHAPS 1545, PERHAPS CASTEL DURANTE
Painted in the centre with a bust-length portrait of a woman in profile to left, wearing a blue and yellow dress with a lace collar, within a blue-ground circular medallion with a Sgraffito inscription Antonia mia bella, the well with a band of elaborate Vitruvian scrolls, the rim with military trophies including the date 1545 and a scrolling label inscribed La mia bella polisena, against a blue ground, within an ochre-edged rim (broken in two and restored, glaze flaking to rim)
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) diam.
AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA DATED BELLA DONNA DISH
PERHAPS 1545, PERHAPS CASTEL DURANTE
Painted in the centre with a bust-length portrait of a woman in profile to left, wearing a blue and yellow dress with a lace collar, within a blue-ground circular medallion with a Sgraffito inscription Antonia mia bella, the well with a band of elaborate Vitruvian scrolls, the rim with military trophies including the date 1545 and a scrolling label inscribed La mia bella polisena, against a blue ground, within an ochre-edged rim (broken in two and restored, glaze flaking to rim)
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) diam.
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