A large polychrome Italian maiolica 'deer hunt' dish, Patanazzi workshop, Urbino, ca. 1579

Dia.: 38,5 cm

The dish was part of a service made for Alfonso II d'Este, the Duke of Ferrara, by the Patanazzi workshop. The cavetto painted with a deer hunt, the broad border with a frieze of grotteschi, a flaming brazier inscribed 'Ardet Aeternum', the Duke's emblem, at the top, a cartouche with a goddess en grisaille at the base.

Condition: (UV-checked)
- With a restored break across, diagonally, from ca. 1:30 o'clock to ca. 7:30 o'clock. The repair executed to a very high standard and invisible to the naked eye, but showing up under UV-light.