AN URBINO ISTORIATO DISH painted with Latona changing the peasants into Frogs, the goddess kneeling before her two children and turning four men into frogs who prevent her drinking from the stream, one with a frog's head, flanked by trees in a landscape before a hill town and mountains within an ochre line rim, named on the reverse Ladea Fona mucta liuilani in rani (broken in four pieces and repaired, slight chips to rim), circa 1540

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AN URBINO ISTORIATO DISH painted with Latona changing the peasants into Frogs, the goddess kneeling before her two children and turning four men into frogs who prevent her drinking from the stream, one with a frog's head, flanked by trees in a landscape before a hill town and mountains within an ochre line rim, named on the reverse Ladea Fona mucta liuilani in rani (broken in four pieces and repaired, slight chips to rim), circa 1540
26.5cm. diam.

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Cf. Jeanne Giacomotti, Les majoliques des Musées nationaux, no. 878 for a similar dish in the Louvre with the subject reversed

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