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Lot 483: A Collection of Five Decorative Earthenware Wall Plates in Various Hand-Painted Styles
This collection consists of five decorative earthenware wall plates featuring various hand-painted and moulded designs.
A Portuguese hand-painted earthenware wall plate features a reticulated border with heart-shaped piercings. The centre is decorated with a bouquet of pink and yellow flowers on a white ground, and the face is inscribed in blue script Lagos – PORTUGAL. The reverse is painted in black with HANDPAINTED and the number 46.
The second piece is a folk-art style circular plate with a gilded rim. The decoration consists of a central brown and yellow owl with large concentric eyes, surrounded by a dense field of red, yellow, and blue flowers with green foliage.
The third piece is a large circular plate decorated with a hand-painted blue floral and arabesque pattern on a cream ground. The reverse bears a hand-painted mark in blue consisting of the characters ASAS above a horizontal line, with T.P. CAL. positioned below.
The fourth piece is a circular plate with a blue-painted rim and a radial pattern of stylized floral and geometric motifs in blue, green, pink, and yellow. The perimeter is decorated with orange hash-mark symbols.
The fifth piece is a large shaped plate moulded in the form of a sunflower head. The rim consists of overlapping petals finished in a variegated yellow-orange glaze, while the centre is a deep brown with a cross-hatched, textured surface to represent seeds.
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