Urbino Italian majolica birthing cup 16th century

A rare earthenware delivery cup with polychrome decoration of a swaddled child surrounded by two nursemaids and two putti framed on the wing by Raphaelesque motifs with cherubs, vases, grotesques, goats' heads and quivers.
The reverse is richly decorated in the centre with a love figure in yellow ochre standing on a mound holding a spear and shield surrounded by friezes of polychrome flower garlands and stylised flowers on a blue background.
FONTANA workshop
16th century circa 1560 - 1570
A bowl of the same shape with a woman in childbirth, possibly from the same series, in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.