https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/17194/fullDish with Sphinx supporting an armorial shieldca.1500-1530Overall: 8.8 x 43 cm (3 7/16 x 16 15/16 in.)Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)Gift of George and Helen GardinerOrigin: Deruta, Umbria, ItalyG83.1.3411Deruta dish, the centre painted with a winged female sphinx with bared breasts supporting a quartered coat-of-arms of Medici. Another, perhaps del Bene of Verona, among primulas within a robbiana and with scale-pattern border. Painted with blue and gold lustre.Italian Maiolica14th to 18th Century European Earthenware and Stoneware[]European CeramicsItalian Earthenware - Maiolica1847951291ItalianItalian RenaissanceNone