Faience Plate (c. 1760): Art, History and Details

Faience Plate (c. 1760) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Felice Clerici (Italian).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The use of colored ground with the irregularly shaped reserve panels with figural decorations reflects the influence of other European ceramics, particularly Meissen porcelain. The decorations of this plate are charmingly naive and demonstrate the efforts of Italian ceramic makers to keep abreast of current fashions in the field.

Object facts

• Title: Faience Plate
• Date: c. 1760
• Creator attribution: Felice Clerici (Italian)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: faience
• Dimensions: Diameter: 23.8 cm (9 3/8 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1949.175

Collection credit

Gift of R. Thornton Wilson in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson

Further reading listed by the museum

• Foote, Helen. "Two Ceramic Gifts." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 37, no. 1 (January 1950): 8-9, 13-14.

View the collection record

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