From: G&P
Message: 66132
Date: 2010-05-08
Thank you, Francesca! I was pretty certain it wasn’t Adam and Eve. The drawing makes it clear it is Adam and Steve at least. I guess it was the lack of separation of words in the first bit that threw me (though I wouldn’t have picked PO for puo` either). But what you say is clearly right, and the V&A picture is almost identical.
Any idea what the winged creature astride an owl is?
Peter
>> ENONSE :
PO : MANGIARE : SENZA : ?ATI?A
>"e non si
può mangiare senza fatica", lit. 'and one cannot eat without toil'.
See an image of the plate at
http://images. vam.ac.uk/ item/O159917/ dish/?print= 1