A DERUTA BLUE AND GOLD-LUSTRED PORTRAIT DISH outlined in blue and enriched in gold lustre with a half-length portrait of a young woman in profile to the right with a ribbon inscribed MADALENA·B· and flanked by flowers within a well of radiating foliage and a wide border of husks between blue and gold-lustre bands (some areas of glaze retouching to border and centre, rim chip at 11 o'clock), circa 1525

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A DERUTA BLUE AND GOLD-LUSTRED PORTRAIT DISH outlined in blue and enriched in gold lustre with a half-length portrait of a young woman in profile to the right with a ribbon inscribed MADALENA·B· and flanked by flowers within a well of radiating foliage and a wide border of husks between blue and gold-lustre bands (some areas of glaze retouching to border and centre, rim chip at 11 o'clock), circa 1525
41.5cm. diam.

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Cf. A. V. B. Norman, Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Ceramics I, C27 for an example of very similar type

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