Wall platter

The plate is round, plain, homogeneously concave. The whole surface is painted with irregular, dynamic flat shapes in transparent green, creating the impression of an endless pattern. The motifs resemble clouds and leaf-groups, lined with brown contours so typical of Rippl-pictures and embroideries ("round" contours, as he called them). The background is a azure light blue. The blue glaze is crystallized on the reverse, which is equipped with two drilled holes for mounting the plate on the wall. The shape can hardly be identified with any of the drawings in the Zsolnay factory Facon book. It was probably designed earlier as part of a dish set (No. 431, from 1877?) The decoration is not listed in any of the factory Décor books. According to the paper note the plate was exhibited in Venice, at the 1914 XI Esposizione Internazional d'Arte, together with the plate of Inv.No. 54.1732.