AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA LUSTRED 'BELLA DONNA' CHARGER (PIATTO DA POMPA)

DERUTA, 1520-1530

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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA LUSTRED 'BELLA DONNA' CHARGER (PIATTO DA POMPA)
Deruta, 1520-1530
Typically lustred in blue and gold on a white tin-glazed ground with the three-quarter portrait of a fashionable woman to left, her hair in a snood, a banner at the left inscribed Si Dono Epicolo Ede Pocho Valore Basta Afede Poverose Vedere, the cavetto edged with a cell-pattern band, the border with scale-pattern, the reverse covered in a lead glaze and with the remains of a paper label inscribed in ink Deruta
17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

See Dr. J. Chompret, Répertoire de la Majolique Italienne, Milan, 1986 reprint, vol. I, pp. 43-44, vol. II, figs. 200-211 and Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue de majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, nos. 582-585 for others decorated in the center with stylized female portraits of Renaissance beauties similar to the present example.

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