Lot Essay
The unusual depiction of St. Jerome in clothes treated in a very conservative almost late Gothic manner suggest a North European graphic source for the iconography of this dish. The strange perspective and anomalous view point from which the landscape is seen would seem to point to one of the minor centres of istoriato production. See Gaetano Ballardini, Corpus della Maiolica Italiana, vol. II, no. 106 for a dish, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, with a similar style of painting.