and on the other
1502.
A considerable period elapses between this and the next dated example, a plate, with the subject of Horatius Codes, inscribed,—
Orazio solo contro Toscana tutta.
Fatto in Pesaro. 1541.
On another (a companion of a plate preserved in the Louvre),
l Pianetto di Marte
fatto in Pesaro 1542
in bottega da Mastro Gironimo Vasaro. I.P.
He further mentions a plate having a mark consisting of the initials O A connected by a cross, and a bas-relief with the same initials which again occur sculptured over a door, which he suggests may have been that of the potter’s house; we should, however, be more disposed to regard it as a conventual or cathedral monogram.
We will now leave the work of Passeri and quote another record of the pottery made at Pesaro a short time before the 16th century, returning to him for information on the revival of the art at that locality in the last.
Dennistoun in his history of the dukes of Urbino (vol. 3, p. 388) refers to a letter among the diplomatic archives of the duchy preserved at Florence dated 1474, from pope Sextus IV. in which he thanks Costanzo Sforza, lord of Pesaro, for a present of
