TWO FAENZA BERETTINO-GROUND DISHES
THE FIRST DATED 1521, THE SECOND CIRCA 1521, BOTH PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF PIERO BERGANTINI
TWO FAENZA BERETTINO-GROUND DISHES THE FIRST DATED 1521, THE SECOND CIRCA 1521, BOTH PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF PIERO BERGANTINI The centre painted with a scrolling shield with the arms of the Spada family, the blue chief with three ochre fleur-de-lys , the lower part with three swords or daggers on an orange ground, flanked by the initials ·S· and ·S· in blue and scrolling ribbons, the well with a white garland, the broad dark-blue ground border reserved with grotteschi with scrolling foliage and palmettes, the first inscribed 1521 twice within rectangular panels, each reverse with concentric blue bands and one orange band, centred by a blue spiral (both cracked and restored, some associated in-filling and overpainting, minor rim chipping) 9½ in. (24 cm.) diam. (2)
TWO FAENZA BERETTINO-GROUND DISHES
THE FIRST DATED 1521, THE SECOND CIRCA 1521, BOTH PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF PIERO BERGANTINI
TWO FAENZA BERETTINO-GROUND DISHES THE FIRST DATED 1521, THE SECOND CIRCA 1521, BOTH PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF PIERO BERGANTINI The centre painted with a scrolling shield with the arms of the Spada family, the blue chief with three ochre fleur-de-lys , the lower part with three swords or daggers on an orange ground, flanked by the initials ·S· and ·S· in blue and scrolling ribbons, the well with a white garland, the broad dark-blue ground border reserved with grotteschi with scrolling foliage and palmettes, the first inscribed 1521 twice within rectangular panels, each reverse with concentric blue bands and one orange band, centred by a blue spiral (both cracked and restored, some associated in-filling and overpainting, minor rim chipping) 9½ in. (24 cm.) diam. (2)
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