Maiolica Collection

Dish with a horseman

Deruta, c. 1540 - 1570

41.5cm (diameter)

tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

Fierce-looking horsemen are a favourite subject on mid-sixteenth-century Deruta maiolica, both lustred and unlustred. Many, but not this example, are dressed as Turkish warriors.

Lent from the Barlow Collection.  LI206.11