Three Montelupo chargers, 17th century

one painted with a Commedia dell'Arte figure holding a letter in his right hand indistinctly inscribed AL M., with a building to the left, one painted with a gentleman on horseback holding a lance in his left hand resting it over his shoulder, and another with a fashionable lady holding a bunch of flowers in her left hand with a distant pagoda building to the left, each in a minimal landscape reserved against bright ochre-yellow sky,

The dish with a commedia dell'arte figure, broken into several sections and repaired, one of the smaller sections located at the rim broken in several smaller parts. the dish with a figure on a horse, there is a crack which begins at the rim at 4 o'clock and extends to the center around the anti-clockwise around the circumference of the footrim and extends down towards 5 o'clock. flat rim chip to underside of rim, approximately 8cm. wide. the dish with a lady, broken into several sections and repaired, significant glaze loss to the underside, the front with a flake of glaze located at her bodice.
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