A plate with the "M" letter in the bottom and decorated with "quarters" with candelabra decorations on the brim

The plate, produced in Pesaro, has a wide, elegant and tidy brim, divided into "quarters": this decorative typology developed in Faenza in the first half of the 16th century and ran out there around 1575, but it remained on numerous majolica from other Italian workshops between the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century, such as those of Pesaro, where an original and highly appreciated decorative genre had been created. Inside the "quarters", the decoration alternates a simple rhomboid geometric ornament painted in yellow with green shades, with the more complex "candelabra" motif, made in diluted blue on a brown-ocher background; this decorative motif ("a candelabra" or "a candeliera"), which derives from Roman art and was widespread in the Renaissance period, echoes the shape of a candelabra, variously decorated with phytomorphic elements, leaves and racemes. The bottom, surrounded by three frames painted in a delicate polychromy, shows an M drawn in blue on a white dotted background. This artifact is fully part of the production of gallant pottery, and it probably reveals the initial of the name of the young future bride.