Italian earthenware dish (Castelli, Grüe's workshop) from the middle of the 17th century. With blue, green, ochre and manganese decoration, in the centre of a scene with an animal fight in an architectural landscape, the wing of coat of arms in a...

Italian earthenware dish (Castelli, Grüe's workshop) from the middle of the 17th century. With blue, green, ochre and manganese decoration, in the centre of a scene with an animal fight in an architectural landscape, the wing of coat of arms in a cartouche surmounted by a helmet and large flowered arabesques with putti, blue net on the edge, restored crack, small shock, spalling.
D.: 41.5 cm
For a dish with a similar border but without a coat of arms, see by
Luciana Arbace, Maioliche di Castelli, La Raccolta Acerbo, Ferrara, 1993, p. 37; for another in the same spirit with a similar central scene, see by Fiocco-Gherhardi-Matricardi, Capolavori della maiolica castellana dal cinquecento al terzo fuoco, La Collezione
Matricardi, Turin, 2012, p. 111.
The scene is inspired by a work by Joannes Stradanus, engraved by
Philips Galle for the publication Incontri di caccia, published in 1578 for Como de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.