Attributed to Camillo Gatti (d. 1567)

Property from a Swiss private collection

Attributed to Camillo Gatti (d. 1567)

In the Workshop of Guido Durantino (1520 - 1576)

Italian, Urbino, dated 1550

Large maiolica plate with Diana and Acteon

tin-glazed earthenware

the back inscribed in blue 1550/Ateonne converso in cervjo da/ Diana and with a paper label from the von Hertzberg collection. The wood frame is accompanied with a wood box with a silk brocade interior and embroidered with the coat of arms of the von Hertzberg family with early 18th century lacquered and giltwood circular frame (most likely an early copy of the original 17th century frame noted in the Mazarin inventory of 1661); painted with blue, green, orange, brown, manganese, black and white; the shape with a flat base and narrow slightly sloping rim. Acteon is being assailed by hounds in the centre, Diana is bathing on the right and a fountain is in the background amidst classical ruins and a fragment of a statue of Venus within an arched niche, three nymphs are on the left holding a cornucopia and gathering fruit from the trees, the edge painted with two lines, one yellow and the other blue-black.

diameter: 46.4cm., 18 ¼in.