CIRCA 1555-1560, PROBABLY PESARO

This plate bears close similarities to pieces illustrated by Carmen Ravanelli Guidotti, Collezione Chigi Saracini, Maioliche Italiane, Palazzo Chigi Saracini, Siena, 1992, nos. 22, 24 and 27, and the inscriptions illustrated in figs. 22b, 22d and 24b, all appear to be by the same hand as the inscription on the reverse of the present plate. Guidotti attributes them to workshop of the Zenobia painter, and Johanna Lessmann similarly attributes a dish (very similar to the present plate) painted with Romulus and Remus in Brunswick to workshop of the Zenobia painter, see Lessmann, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Italienische Majolika, Katalog der Sammlung, Brunswick, 1979, p. 344, no. 485.