The source is an engraving by G.G. Caraglio after a painting by Giovanni dei Rossi (Cf. Bartsch, XV, no. 53), similarly used as a source for an Urbino trilobed cistern formerly in the Spitzer Collection and illustrated in the Catalogue, La Collection Spitzer (1892), Vol. IV, no. 83, pl. XVII. See also Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Ceramics I, C.100, p. 205 for a fragment of another cistern, formerly in the Falke Collection, and ibid, Fig. 20 for a reproduction of the engraving; another dish with this subject is there referred to as being formerly in the Spitzer Collection and sold by Chevalier, Paris, 17 April-16 June 1893, lot 1099