painted in the center with a classical figure draped in a puce robe and carrying a tray of fruit within a gilt-edged roundel, the rim with a border of puce crenellations and a gilt vine interrupted by four cameo medallions within the inscriptions MUSEO FARNESANO, titled on the reverse Mus: Ercol: Serie di Pitture/Figura Incognita/Tom. II. Tau. XXXIII, Crowned FRF monogram mark in red.

Some minor wear to the gilding of the rim edge; .5cm shallow rim chip; 1cm slice chip to the footrim at the point of one stilt mark.
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A plate from the same service, also painted with an unidentified figure, is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, museum no. C. 1735-1919. Another, with a portrait of Apollo, was sold at Christie's Rome, March 10, 1977, lot 269. A somewhat similar plate with a simpler border incorporating four inscribed cameo medallions is illustrated in Angela Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimpnte e real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806, p. 392, cat. no. 320.