AN INTERESTING LARGE URBINO DEEP DISH, by Guido da Merlingo, painted in brilliant enamel colours with Coriolanus in front of Rome with his legionaries being pursuaded by his mother Vulumnia and his wife Vergilia, supported by the matrons of Rome to desist from attacking the city which is shown in the middle distance, in fine tones of orange, blue, yellow and green, the back of the dish inscribed " Coralliano (sic) quando vene p rovinare roma e p eli pregi de la matre fu placato" and in darker blue just below " Fate in botega da guido de merligno in Urbino ", within a yellow line border, circa 1540
