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Italian ceramic art : Figure design and other forms of ornamentation in 15th century Italian maiolica (1905)

Wallis, Henry, 1830- · London : Quaritch · leaf 86

An illustration from Italian ceramic art : Figure design and other forms of ornamentation in 15th century Italian maiolica, 1905, leaf 86 — 48 … Fig. 48. — CIRCULAR PLAQUE. Thick buff body. Ornamentation in 8opra-azzurro heightened with passages of orange. Inscribed M * 1491 ” Ge (?). (To save labour in preparing the drawing the relative depths of the colours are reversed; thus, the ground is a deep blue.) D. 26 cm. South Kensington Museum.

Majolica · Decoration and ornament

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