An Urbino Maiolica Istoriato Footed Dish (Alzata), ca. 1525

Painted with the Assumption of the Virgin, the Virgin born by three cherubs in a golden Aureola, flanked by two kneeling angels, a mountainous wooded landscape with lakes below, the foreground with the Virgin's tomb, Saint Thomas kneeling nearby receiving a scapular, within a blue line and yellow band rim, the underside with two concentric yellow bands, the shallow circular foot with a further two bands

10 7/10 in diameter | 27.3 cm diameter