16th century Urbino majolica deep dish - Lot 33

16th century Urbino majolica deep dish Inscribed on the reverse in blue chomo" "bacho" "ando" in. / "cima" "latore, and labels n°66 / URBINO and P.16 Full polychrome decoration of a scene with numerous characters in a lakeside landscape, with a hill in the center with a tower topped by a putto, ochre fillet on the rim, small chip on the heel, chips. D. 24 cm Provenance : Former Henri Blay collection (1861-1920). For another model with a scene in the same spirit but inverted, preserved in the collections of the British Museum in London, see Timothy Wilson, Italian" Renaissance "ceramics, London, 2009, Vol.I, pp.322-323. This scene was inspired by an engraving by Giulio Bonasone after paintings by Giulio Romano; the scene illustrates the legend of the Emperor Augustus and Octavian's kinship with Apollo.