Rectangular plate in lustrous majolica by Deruta, 16th centu - Lot 14

Rectangular plate in lustrous majolica by Deruta, 16th century Red wax seal with the initial F, part of a label for Bureau Blay With relief-molded decoration depicting Saint Jerome in a landscape with a lion, in a molded frame, with yellow and red lustre decoration, two grip holes, restored chips, retouching, small cracks, chips. H. 26.5 x L. 21.5 cm. Provenance : Joseph Fau Collection. Me E. Escribe, Paris, Collection de feu M. Joseph Fau, March 3-8, 1884, lot 8. Former Henri Blay (1861-1920) collection. For another similar model, preserved in the collections of the Musée Adrien Dubouché, Limoges, see Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, p.227; another similar plate, but lustrated only in yellow, preserved in the collections of the Museo civico, Turin, and illustrated by Luigi Mallé, Maioliche" "italiane" dalle "origini" al "Settecento, Mila, 1970, n.23. For a large Urbino dish with the coat of arms of Guidubaldo II Della Rovere with the same red wax seal, see by Timothy Wilson, The Golden Age of Italian Maiolica/Painting, Turin, 2018, p.328.