A DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA BELLA DONNA FOOTED DISH

CIRCA 1540, PERHAPS CASTEL DURANTE

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A DUCHY OF URBINO MAIOLICA BELLA DONNA FOOTED DISH
CIRCA 1540, PERHAPS CASTEL DURANTE
Painted with a bust-length portrait of a young woman three-quarters to left, wearing a yellow turban with blue and white stripes, a beaded necklace and a cream dress with diagonal bands of scrolling foliage and stripes, before a scrolling ribbon inscribed PANTASILEA.BELLA, all against a blue ground, the rim edged in yellow (restored section to rim between four and seven o'clock, restored rim chip at eleven o'clock, glaze flaking to rim, two chips to footrim)
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) diam.

Literature

Ettore A. Sannipoli et al., La Via Della Ceramica Tra Umbria e Marche, Maioliche Rinascimentali da Collezioni Private, Gubbio, Exhibition Catalogue, Città di Castello, 2010, p. 236.

Exhibited

Gubbio, Palazzo Ducale, La Via della Ceramica tra Umbria e Marche, June 2010 - January 2011, no. 3·17.

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Lot Essay

For a detailed discussion of bella donna dishes or coppe d'amore as they have also come to be known, see Julia E. Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 297-298, and see no. 367 for a similarly decorated footed dish.

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