拍品专文
This piece is an important document, as it is unusual for bella donna pieces of this type to be dated. The inscription is also unusual, and translates as ‘virtue and beauty make man happy’. In their 2004 exhibition catalogue, Giulio Busti and Franco Cocchi draw comparisons between Deruta bella donna dishes and the work of Pietro Perugino; see Giulio Busti and Franco Cocchi, La ceramica umbra al tempo di Perugino, Museo Regionale della Ceramica, Deruta, February – July 2004 Exhibition Catalogue, 2004 (in particular pp. 106-107, pp. 112-113 and pp. 116-118).