An important Renaissance maiolica platter

An important Renaissance maiolica platter A large, moulded plate with basal ring. Decorated to the centre with a female portrait in profile with a decorative helmet, beneath a banderole reading "MARFISA B." The face outlined in blue with pale ochre coloured skin and blue strands of hair, finely highlighted in white. Bordered by a laurel and fruit wreath. Broken and restored with minor additions, probably between 1905 and 1939. D 33.7 cm. Siena or Urbino, ca. 1520 - 30.

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Ø 33,7 cm