An Italian Maiolica Rimini Crespina Shaped Dish
9741 An Italian Maiolica Rimini shaped dish or crespina, painted with Apollo and Daphne at the point of her transformation in a wooded mountainous landscape with the sea beyond, relief moulded body on a raised circular foot, inscribed “Apollo et daffne coversa (sic) in lauro.” Reattached rim chips, old restoration.
Italy, Rimini
1550-70
Diameter: 10.75 ins (27.5 cm) £6,000
