Dish, painted in blue, yellow, orange, copper green, dark red, and manganese purple. In the middle, in a landscape, an allegorical figure of Philosophy, adapted from one of a series of Florentine engravings wrongly known as the 'Tarocchi Cards of Mantegna', a woman in a garb resembling that of Athena, holding a shield with a scorpion and a long arrow barb downwards. On the rim, trophies of antique weapons connected by a ribbon, in reserve on an orange ground. The back plain.