1034 - Large bowl with a portrait of a young woman — Deruta, ca. 1520/1540 — Round, deep form resting on a footring and featuring a wide, flaring rim; in the center, a half-length portrait of a noblewoman in profile against a yellow background, standing against a wall and gazing at a rocky landscape covered with vegetation; the rim is decorated with radial panels featuring grotesque motifs and a scale mosaic with a triplet motif repetition. Majolica painted in shades of yellow, ochre, blue, and green; the underside is glazed brown and accented by two blue spiral tendrils; cross-hatching within the base ring. H. 7.5 cm, Ø 38.5 cm. - A break and some chipping have been restored by museum professionals and are almost invisible. - The same design is found on bowls from the former Murray Collection and at the Musée de Cluny in Paris. A similar depiction of a woman labeled “GIULIA BELLA” can be found on a bowl in Turin, at the Palazzo Madama, Museo Civico d’Arte Antica. The combination of two spirals with the lines in the center appears, among other places, on a bowl in the British Museum, London. - See J. Chompret: *Repertoire de la majolique italienne*, Paris 1949, figs. 178, 179; Timothy Wilson, Cristiana Maritano: *L’Italia del Rinascimento*. Lo splendore della maiolica, exhibition in Turin 2019, no. 139; Dora Thornton, Timothy Wilson: *Italian Renaissance Ceramics. A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection*, vol. 2, London 2009, no. 259.