i8B Plate with Saint Paul. Faenza, early 1500s. Tin-glazed earthenware. Ecouen, France, Musee de la Renaissance,
inv. Cluny 2975/2418.Notes
See, for example, a plate with the subject of Marcus Curtius attributed
to Cafaggiolo and dated ca. 1510-15 in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-
Museum, Braunschweig (inv. 837; Lessmann 1979, no. 83, pi. 1), and
an early sixteenth-century plate with the subject of the fall of Phaeton,
also attributed to Cafaggiolo, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Lon
don (inv. C.2082-1910; Cora and Fanfani 1982, no. 106; Rackham
1940, 1: 109, no. 314; 2: pi. 52).
Cora and Fanfani 1982, no. 23.
See Ravanelli Guidotti 1998, 163-64, 178, 206, 220, figs. 29g, 30c,
33b, 42b, 48b) as well as a Faentine plate of Hercules and Cerberus
dated ca. 1520 in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig
(inv. 4; Lessmann 1979, 98, no. 17.) Interestingly, not only is the latter
close in scale to the Getty plate but the shape—rimless with a small
base and sloping sides—is very similar as well.- Giacomotti 1974, 60-61, no. 240; although similar in conception, the
two plates different greatly in style and could not be by the same hand. - It is uncertain whether the shape of this plate relates to the unusual one
of the Getty piece since it is described as a coppa svasata (open bowl)
with a jitta filettatura (dense line pattern) on the reverse (Studio Felsina
1984, 74-75); its attribution to Faenza is convincing since the profile
of the woman is rendered in a caricature style typical of a certain type of
Faentine ceramic painting around the turn of the sixteenth century (see
Ravanelli Guidotti 1998, 199-200, no. 39).
106 Dish with Saint Peter