Ornamental plate - Amor playing with trophies and a ribbon

Ceramics and Glass Collection

Accession Nr.: 60.512.1
Date of production:
ca. 1540
Materials: majolica
Techniques: polychrome painting
Dimensions:
opening diameter: 23 cm
height: 4,5 cm
base diameter: 11,5 cm
Broad, deep bowl with a slightly splayed rim. The border of the rim is yellow: there are some military emblems and ribbons on a wide blue stripe under it a kind of decoration known as "Trophea". The middle of the interior shows an amoretto walking, with clasped hands, in a schematic landscape. The scene is framed by a yellow and blue circle. Painted in blue, green, brown, orange, yellow and white. Between the tropheas are small scrolls inscribed S.P.Q:R. (Senatus Populusque Romanus).

Literature

  • Szerk.: Péter Márta: Reneszánsz és manierizmus. Az európai iparművészet korszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1988. - Nr. 279. (Lovay Zsuzsanna)
  • Brestyánszky Ilona: Italienische Majolikakunst. Italienische Majolika in ungarischen Sammlungen. Corvina Kiadó, Budapest, 1967. - Nr. XII.