Large bowl in Castel-Durante or Urbino majolica, Circa 1535-45

Large bowl in Castel-Durante or Urtbino majolica with polychrome decoration in the center in a small medallion surrounded by a laurel torus, a bust of a woman in left profile on a blue background surmounted by the inscription "Lucia Bella", around interlaced oak branches.
Circa 1535/45.
D. 28 cm.
Possibly Francesco di Bernardino di Nanni alias Francesco Durantino alias the painter of the Bergantini cup. Many pieces glued back together, a hole above the inscription, two small gaps restored on the wing.
Cf. for similar pieces: Jeanne Giacomotti, Les Majoliques des Musées Nationaux, no. 785 p. 239. Ed. des Musées Nationaux, Paris 1974, and Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A Catalogue of the British Museum collection, vol. I n°221 p. 375 plate dated 1537, The British Museum Press, London 2009.