Dish

Popular design on Deruta dishes, lone horseman, European or Turkish. Rider holding a mace appears to be Turkish, hound chasing hare indicates stylized hunting scene. Border of dish combines scale and leaf-palmetto designs separated by three bands of geometric ornament.

decorative

tin-glazed

Deep, circular earthenware dish on concave base with flattened foot, wide everted rim and wedged lip. In the well is a hunting landscape with a man on a horse, above a dog chasing a hare. The quartered rim alternates scroll and scale patterns. Four swirls on brown exterior.