A Haarlem faience dish and a Deruta tazza, first half 17th century

both of moulded circular form, painted with a central medallion of a winged putto or cupid in a landscape, within an ornate grotesque border, the tazza with two semi-circle panels on a short raised foot,

There is a hairline crack to the rim of the Deruta charger measuring approximately 5cm long. Both pieces have some typical rim chips.
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It is interesting to note the immediate similarities between these two pieces. By the mid-sixteenth century, Italian maiolica was becoming increasingly popular in England. It seems likely Dutch merchants seized this opportunity to supply this emerging and eager clientele with their own 'majolica' at much more attractive prices than the imported Italian originals. A similar example with a putto playing a drum, bearing the axe mark of De Porceleyne Byl (The Porcelain Axe) factory, proving such designs were also produced in delft, is now in the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.