CIRCA 1530-40, PROBABLY CASTEL DURANTE

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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA BELLA DONNA FOOTED DISH
CIRCA 1530-40, PROBABLY CASTEL DURANTE
Of low footed form, painted with a bust-length portrait of a young woman turning to look over her left shoulder, wearing a broad yellow ribbon entwined in her hair, a beaded necklace and a blue, green and yellow shaded dress over a white chemise, before a scrolling ribbon inscribed PORTIA, all against a blue-shaded ground, mounted in an elaborate giltwood foliate scroll frame (repaired rim chip at twelve o'clock with associated hairline crack, another short hairline crack to rim at three o'clock, smaller rim chips)
9 3/8 in. (23.9 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

See footnote to lot 7.

This example of a bella donna dish is unusual because the subject is depicted looking over her shoulder towards the viewer; usually the subject is shown in profile to the left or to the right. For a dish with the subject looking over her right shoulder, see Elena Ivanova et al., Il secolo d'oro della maiolica, Ceramica italiana dei secoli XV-XVI dalla raccolta del Museo Statale dell'Ermitage, Museo delle Ceramiche Faenza Exhibition Catalogue, 2003, p. 118, no. 105.

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