SMALL PLAT IN ITALIAN FAIENCE (PADOUE) FROM THE EARLY 17th CENTURY Cardinal shape, on a heel, with blue, green, ochre and manganese decoration in the Iznik style of a bouquet of flowers with carnations around the initials Z and P and a cross, in a medallion, blue fillets around the edge; chips. D. 26 cm (10 ¼ in.) Provenance: Artmétal, Pierre-Richard Royer, Paris. An Italian faience dish, Padua, early 17th century For another dish with decoration in the same spirit, held in the collections of the Musée national de la Céramique de Sèvres, see the Musée national de Sèvres exhibition catalogue, La Faïence européenne au XVIIe siècle, Paris, 2003, p.52, n.23.