Sir Thomas Hepburn, England

Raphael Adda, "Collect🍌ion d' un Grand Amateur", sold Palais G🎐alliera, December 1st-3rd, 1965, lot 518

J.J. Klejman, New York

The present large dish is characteristic of the lustred tin-glazed earthenware produced in Deruta during the first third of the 16th century. Similar examples with varying borders and inscriptions are in the National Gallery of Art, Washington (see C.C.Wilson, Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts...,  no. 2, p. 125) and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (see B. Rackham, Catalog of Italian Maiolica., London, 1940, vol. II, pls. 74 and 75). The profile is a standard one, probably derived from Pinturicchio and possibly from a figure in the foreground of Pinturicchio's fresco of the Visitation in the Borgia apartments in the Vatican (see Western Decorative Arts..., Part I, National Ga▨llery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1993, p.150-151).