Small Italian majolica dish from the 16th century, possibly - Lot 24

Small Italian majolica dish from the 16th century, possibly Siena or Montelupo Decorated in blue and ochre, the center with a checkerboard in a gadrooned medallion, the wing with a frieze of fish scales between braids, the reverse with a large radiating frieze of stylized leaves, small chips and scratches. D. 23 cm. Provenance : Former Henri Blay collection (1861-1920). For two other dishes, one with a checkerboard pattern, the other with a radiating pattern of stylized leaves on the reverse in the same spirit, attributed to Montelupo or Siena, in the collections of the British Museum, London, see Timothy Wilson, Italian" Renaissance "ceramics, London, 2009, Vol.I, pp ;201 and 205.