A Deruta blue and yellow lustre dish, first half of the 16th century

drawn in blue and highlighted in yellow lustre with a winged female sphinx, on a tesselated pavement, her paw resting on a shield inscribed "Orelia", within a typical broad panelled border (broken and restored)

broken into three pieces and restored, some chips and flaking.
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Three almost identical dishes are recorded in public collections, one with the arms of Orsini at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Museum number C.2173-1910), one with the arms of Senza, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (see Jorg Rasmussen, The Robert Lehman Collection, New York, 1989, no. 106) ; and a third at Le Petit Palais, Paris (see F. Barbe and C. Ravanelli Guidotti, "Forme e "Diverse Pitture" della Maiolica Italiana",in  La collezione delle maioliche del Petit Palais della città di Parigi, Venezia, 2006, n 81, p. 160)