PUMP PLATE, DERUTA, 1540-1550 CIRCA in majolica painted in polychrome with iron red, antimony yellow, copper green, cobalt blue, manganese; diam. cm 37, foot diam. cm 13.2, h. cm 7.5 A CHARGER, DERUTA, CIRCA 1540-1550 Comparative bibliography T. Hausmann, Majolika. Spanische und italienische Keramik vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert, Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin, Berlin 1972, pp. 210-214 nn. 160-161; J. Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris 1974, pp. 156-157 n. 521; C. Fiocco, G. Gherardi, L. Sfeir-Fakhri, Majoliques italiennes du Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Lyon. Collection Gillet, Lyon 2001, nos. 88, 89, 90 The parade dish shows the characteristic shape with a deep and wide cavetto, the brim is wide and ends in a hem finished with a slightly raised slat, and rests on a ring foot, also slightly raised, and originally perforated raw to allow exposure. The reverse is covered with a dark chamois brown bistro weighted glaze with a thin layer of glaze. In the centre of the cavetto is the depiction of Saint Lucia, who advances holding a palm branch in her right hand and a cup containing eyes in her left hand, symbols of her martyrdom, dressed in a long red tunic and a cloak knotted over her left shoulder, left to fall to her side. The landscape is typical with several superimposed planes to give depth to the scene, with small and sparse turreted villages in the background. The brim, subdivided into metopes, alternates in a lively colour scheme embryos, inflorescences and oval "almond-shaped" elements. The represented figure is stylistically compared with the works of the prolific workshop of Giacomo Mancini, called 'El Frate', who elaborated in a compendiary way also non-religious subjects, such as knights, soldiers and figures of commoners. The subjects that can be ascribed to this production are the result of a more popular interpretation of classical subjects: the polychromy is marked, the painting is more runny with marked brushstrokes The work can be compared to the production of parade dishes made in Deruta around the middle of the 16th century, as can be seen in a dish with similar stylistic characteristics preserved in the Kunst und Gewerbemuseum in Hamburg with the coat of arms of Julius III, Pope from 1550 to 1555. See also the beautiful pump plate with Saint Lucia from the Adrien Ducheé Museum in Limonges (inv. no. 5502) or the one with a female figure with a broken heart from the Gillet collection in Lyon. For the style of the workshop, see instead the plates in the Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin (Inv. No. 62.33 and No. 61.309), with different decoration on the brim