A GUBBIO LUSTRED ISTORIATO DATED DISH painted with the story of Apollo and Marsyas, Apollo seated and turned towards Marsyas who is playing the pipes and with two figures to the right, one with a dagger dripping blood, in a wooded landscape before a river, a distant hill town, mountains and a sunset, enriched with iron-red and copper-lustre, the underside lustred with scrolling foliage and the date 1540 (the rim reduced), 1540, later circular frame

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A GUBBIO LUSTRED ISTORIATO DATED DISH painted with the story of Apollo and Marsyas, Apollo seated and turned towards Marsyas who is playing the pipes and with two figures to the right, one with a dagger dripping blood, in a wooded landscape before a river, a distant hill town, mountains and a sunset, enriched with iron-red and copper-lustre, the underside lustred with scrolling foliage and the date 1540 (the rim reduced), 1540, later circular frame
22.5cm. diam.

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