Italian - Dish with the "Beautiful Camilla" - Walters 481358

Represented in three-quarter profile, the idealized portrait of a young woman with fine features and narrow lips has been painted according to Renaissance ideals of female beauty. The scroll surrounding her reads "CAMILLA BELLA" (beautiful Camilla). Such a plate could have been presented to a lady of that name from an admirer, but it could also have been treasured as a general poetic evocation of ideal beauty.