CIRCA 1530-40, PROBABLY URBINO, PROBABLY LUSTRED AT GUBBIO IN THE WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI

The subject of this dish is uncertain. One possibility is that it depicts the liberation of St. Peter, who had been imprisoned by King Herod (possibly represented by the figure on the steps). St. Peter was rescued from the prison by an angel.

A dish in Cluny (Inv. 7570) with similar handling of the landscape and figures is illustrated by Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, p. 278, no. 882.