Small dish in Italian lustre majolica from the 16th century, - Lot 28

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Small dish in Italian lustre majolica from the 16th century, - Lot 28
Small dish in Italian lustre majolica from the 16th century, possibly Pesaro Inscribed in blue De Prie[po] et loto se Decorated in plain polychrome and lustre, depicting Priape and Lotis in a lacustrine landscape, ochre fillet on the rim, small chips, chips. D. 25 cm. Provenance: Former Henri Blay collection (1861-1920). In mythology, just as Priape, god of fertility, was about to mate with the sleeping nymph Lotis, Silenus' donkey brayed and Lotis changed into a tree, which took his name, the lotus.
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