https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/17228/fullPlate with scene from the story of Leto and the Lyciansca.1560Orazio FontanaOverall: 3.8 x 24 cm (1 1/2 x 9 7/16 in.)Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)Gift of George and Helen GardinerOrigin: Urbino, The Marches, ItalyG83.1.4021An Urbino Istoriato armorial plate, from the workshop of Orazio Fontana, painted with the goddess Latona changing the Lysian peasants, who had insulted her, into frogs. The goddess is on the right with the infant Diana in her arms, and the child Apollo behind. The peasants are on the left before the lake with buildings and distant mountains. There is a coat-of-arms suspended from a chain in a grisaille cartouche.Italian Renaissance MaiolicaItalian Maiolica14th to 18th Century European Earthenware and Stoneware[]European CeramicsItalian Earthenware - Maiolica183063595ItalianItalian RenaissanceInscription, verso: 'la dea latona'
Coat-of-arms flanked with the initials CM above