AN URBINO DOCUMENTARY INSCRIBED ISTORIATO CHARGER ( PIATTO DA POMPA ) PAINTED BY FRANCESCO DURANTINO IN THE WORKSHOP OF GUIDO DE MERLINGO Circa 1540 Painted with a bloody battle scene between the Greeks and Trojans taking place around a central overgrown rocky promontory, with two warriors mounted on white war-horses in the central foreground, one carrying a curling double banner, a double pennant with two coats-of-arms to the left, other rearing horses and dead and dying warriors all around, the city of Troy in flames in the distance, the reverse inscribed ' Li grezie eletroane pe r elena fu de sfata and fate in botega de guido de merligo da urbino ' (crack at 12 o'clock extending from rim and dividing just below the well to left and right, a small area of restoration to the left of the rockwork at 10 o'clock, another small area of restoration at 5 o'clock) 18 in. (46.5 cm.) diam.
AN URBINO DOCUMENTARY INSCRIBED ISTORIATO CHARGER ( PIATTO DA POMPA ) PAINTED BY FRANCESCO DURANTINO IN THE WORKSHOP OF GUIDO DE MERLINGO Circa 1540 Painted with a bloody battle scene between the Greeks and Trojans taking place around a central overgrown rocky promontory, with two warriors mounted on white war-horses in the central foreground, one carrying a curling double banner, a double pennant with two coats-of-arms to the left, other rearing horses and dead and dying warriors all around, the city of Troy in flames in the distance, the reverse inscribed ' Li grezie eletroane pe r elena fu de sfata and fate in botega de guido de merligo da urbino ' (crack at 12 o'clock extending from rim and dividing just below the well to left and right, a small area of restoration to the left of the rockwork at 10 o'clock, another small area of restoration at 5 o'clock) 18 in. (46.5 cm.) diam.
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