Tondino Faenza, verso il 1525 , Lot n° 86

Majolica. Diameter 24.6 cm. Conservation: broken into several fragments and reassembled during restoration Round dish with a wide brim decorated with a pinwheel motif "alla porcellana" in monochrome blue, and with a bird, perhaps a swan, painted on the cavetto. On the reverse side there are rapidly executed serpentine and lattice motifs. For similar dishes and an extensive dissertation on the "porcelain" motif see C.Ravanelli Guidotti, Thesaurus di opere della tradizione di Faenza nelle raccolte del Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, Faenza 1998, pp. 265-283.