Ornamental plate

The circular, solid centre is decorated with a six-petalled flower placed on the outside of a small circle that contains a square. The inside of the petals are filled with divided mouchette motifs. Pierced ornaments are repeated between the petals, also filled with mouchette motifs. On the outside surface of the circular centre there are three-quartered circle sections and slightly flat, plaited, Gothic-style ogees. The rim is filled with tracery. This plate was modelled on Early Gothic decoration and another plate made in the Royal Iron Foundry of Berlin, in 1830. It differs from the model only in that the centre of the Berlin plate is also pierced. The model of this plate was almost surely taken from the Viennese storehouse of the Berlin factory to Resica. A similar object can be found in the Kunstgewerbermuseum of Berlin it was published in Historismus. Katalog des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin 1973, No. 43.