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Description

A fragment of the base of a bowl on a ring foot. White clay. The ceramic has a light blue-grey glazed ground (known as berettino). The ring foot has a through hole. On the inner surface a partial painted image of a man survives: the head and upper body with the left arm are visible. The facial features are painted in dark blue on a light-blue ground, the hair is black, and on the head is a yellow-brown crown whose three points are marked in dark blue. The vest or part of the garment covering the torso is painted yellow, while the sleeve is in the same colour as the crown. The figure holds a staff or torch in yellow-green (probably a king, a mythological character or a symbolic figure). E. R. von Stern assigned this bowl fragment to one of the Italian centres, possibly Urbino. The current attribution also places the fragment among Italian maiolica, but probably from northern Italy (the Veneto region). Late 16th to early 17th century. Published by E. R. von Stern (Stern 1906, pl. IX: 99). Attributed with the help of Prof. S. O. Biliaieva, Dr. of History, associate professor at the Department of Archaeology of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and Zeynep Meriç, Dr. Sanat Tarihçisi, researcher in Byzantine and Turkish art (ceramics and small objects), Metropolis Excavations. Scientific description by Yaroslav Chentsov.