TONDINO, GUBBIO, 1530 CIRCA in majolica with red lustre decoration; diam. cm 25,5, foot diam. cm 6,9, h. cm 4,2 A PLATE (TONDINO), GUBBIO, CIRCA 1530 Comparative Bibliography B. Rackham, Victoria and Albert Museum. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London 1977, p. 221 n. 659, table 104; E. Sannipoli (ed.), La via della ceramica tra Umbria e Marche: maioliche rinascimentali da collezioni, Gubbio 2010, pp.114-115 n. 23 The roundel has a wide brim with rounded rim and deep cavetto. The decoration, outlined in cobalt blue, delimits some metopes on the brim, shading the ornaments. The blue colour fills the background in the cavetto giving prominence to the decoration with a gold lustre illuminated flower with touches of red lustre. The cavetto is bordered by a wide band in red lustre, while on the brim metopes filled with embrications alternate with others with wolf's tooth "perspective" separated by minor metopes with a rectangular decoration filled with lustre on a blue background. On the back some concentric lines in red lustre. The roundel probably belongs to the production of the first thirty years of the 16th century, of which the workshop of Mastro Giorgio Andreoli or Mastro Giacomo Paoluccio was the creator, and of which there are some dated examples in public and private collections.