Italian, Pesaro, circa 1560-1575

Istoriato Footed Dish

the reverse inscribed in blue optat aprum, aut fulvum descendere monte leonem (hopes for a boar or a tawny lion to descend from the mountain), a text from the Aen🐻eid (Book 4, 159)

tin glazed earthenware

diameter 10 1/4 in.; 26cm.