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Lot Essay
See A. Faÿ-Hallé a.o., Faïences Françaises, Exhibition Catalogue, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, Le Plessis-Robinson, 1980, p.144 ill. 177 for a related Italo-Nivernais type istoriato dish.
The Virgin and Child with Saint John theme was very common in Italian painting, popular in the 16th century. The infant John the Baptist is naked like Christ or wears a tunic and holds a reed cross. Pseudo-Bonaventura, filling a lacuna in the gospel narrative, relates that the Holy Family on their return from Egypt stayed with Elizabeth, the cousin of the Virgin, and with her son the little Saint John and tells how the latter showed respect to the Christ child, even though both were of tender years.
The Virgin and Child with Saint John theme was very common in Italian painting, popular in the 16th century. The infant John the Baptist is naked like Christ or wears a tunic and holds a reed cross. Pseudo-Bonaventura, filling a lacuna in the gospel narrative, relates that the Holy Family on their return from Egypt stayed with Elizabeth, the cousin of the Virgin, and with her son the little Saint John and tells how the latter showed respect to the Christ child, even though both were of tender years.