Dish with Actaeon and Diana, Round dish of multi-colored majolica, on one foot. Actaeon and Diana are painted on the saucer. In a landscape on the left is a group of bathing women (Diana and her nymphs) and on the right a man walking to the right (Actaeon). The man's head is a deer head. In the background trees and a city. On the back of the dish is the text: 'Ateon converso in cervo' painted., Daphne changed to a laurel-tree: while fleeing from Apollo, Daphne has changed to a laurel-tree by her father Peneus (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 548 ), anonymous, Urbino, c. 1540 - c. 1550, earthenware, tin

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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
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