Lot Essay
Almost certainly by 'the "In Castel Durante" painter' sometimes called Pseudopellipario. Cf. Bernard Rackham, op. cit., pls. 90 & 91, nos. 577-585; see also Timothy Wilson, Maiolica, Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Ashmolean Museum, no. 12 for a dish dated 1526 perhaps from the same series.
Known as 'The Virgin with the Long Thigh', the subject is taken from an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi; see Adam Bartsch, Le Peintre Graveur, Vol. XIV, no. 57
Known as 'The Virgin with the Long Thigh', the subject is taken from an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi; see Adam Bartsch, Le Peintre Graveur, Vol. XIV, no. 57