Painted with the abduction of Helen by Paris, the Prince of Troy and his soldiers, Paris grasping the struggling Helen around the waist, soldiers fighting behind him before a burning city, a boat to the left with Trojans, within a blue line and yellow band border, the reverse with yellow band borders to the rim and foot
10⁹⁄₁₆ in. (26.8 cm.) diameter

Anonymous Private Collection sale, Sotheby's, Florence, 11th October 1972, lot 46.

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This dish appears to share some of the characteristics of the work of a painter called 'The Zenobia Painter', after a documentary plate in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. There are similarities between work by the Zenobia painter and one of the painters who painted in the Guido di Merlino workshop at Urbino, and it has been suggested that the Zenobia painter could perhaps have worked at Urbino before going to Pesaro.

For the Victoria and Albert Museum plate and a very similar piece in the Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick, see Riccardo Gresta, 'Il Pittore di Zenobia: aggiunte e considerazioni' in T. Wilson (ed.), Italian Renaissance Pottery, Papers written in association with a colloquium at the British Museum, London, 1991, pp. 77-78, figs. 1 and 3. The Brunswick piece is also illustrated by Johanna Lessmann, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, Italienische Majolika, Katalog der Sammlung, Brunswick, 1979, p. 336, no. 468.