A FAENZA MAIOLICA TROMPE L’OEIL DISH

Of the surviving bowls modelled with trompe l’oeil fruit and nuts, none are marked except the example in the British Museum. See Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A catalogue of the British Museum collection, London, 2009, Vol. I, pp. 157-158, no. 101, where other examples are cited.

A 16th century trompe l'oeil dish applied with fruit and vegetables from the collection of the 4th Viscount of Allendale, Bywell Hall, was sold by Christie's, London on 31 January 2018, lot 134 (part).