AN URBINO ISTORIATO DISH painted in the workshop of Orazio Fontana with Polythemus and Galatea, Galatea standing in a cockle-shell drawn by dolphins, Cupid with his bow and arrow in flight above and Polythemus standing on the shore before trees playing his pipe, distant buildings and islands in the background within a ochre line rim, inscribed in blue on the reverse Pulifermo E Galatea (extensively broken and repaired between 2.30 o'clock and 7 o'clock, between 8 o'clock and 12 o'clock and across the left hand side of the well), circa 1550