Objekt 5
Plate with bouquet of flowers in contoured floral painting
Description
Contoured flower painting: time-saving decorative technique
The plate is decorated with a very briskly executed bouquet of flowers. In this frequent type of decoration, the contours were first drawn, often using stencils. In the next step, the flowers and leaves were painted, usually in a fairly limited range of colors. With this time-saving form of decoration, Joseph Hannong tried to produce more cheaply and thus achieve greater sales.
Object description
Manufacture Joseph Hannong, Strasbourg, around 1764/65-1770
Faience with onglaze painting
Bequest of Prof. Dr. Franz Merke, Basel
Inv. 1975.164.4.