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Mario loved the beautiful flowers painted on English botanical dishes. This is an especially lovely pair of dishes. This pair of 18th-century botanical dishes is part of the private collection of Mario Buatta. Height: 6″Ĭondition: Very slight wear to the bottom edge and handle, a very small flake on the handle see image #4 -a few very small firing and slip turning defects as originally made (see images).įrom the Private Collection of Mario Buatta With rare exceptions, each piece of mochaware is unique.
The managers of mochaware factories often only specified the style of the work but gave each turner some freedom regarding the choice of design and colors. The top and bottom of the mug are each decorated with three bands of blue slip. The handle of the mug has lovely foliate terminals. According to Rickard “A further enhancement of the marbling process involved the use of a tool that functioned much like a comb by dragging the toothed tool through the wet marbling in a … constant direction”. The renowned expert on Mocaware, Jonathan Rickard, lists this type of decoration in “Mocha and Related Dipped Wares 1770-1939” in a section entitled “Combinations and Other Oddities”, pages 106-121. As the sun shines on us all, it symbolizes impartiality in the benevolence of the Odd Fellows.Ĭondition: An invisible restoration to the underside of the vase, only, and some scratching, particularly to the lustered leaves and the flowers and the lustered top edge.Īn exceptional mochaware mug with rare combed-down slip decoration. The budding branch symbolizes the idea that truth can “draw freshness and verdure” from the “most barren facts and common things in life” and give them life and interest.Ībove all of this is a shining sun. Lady Justice personifies morality in judicial systems. The motto is seen together with an image of Lady Justice and an angel holding a budding branch.
On both sides of the pitcher is the Odd Fellows motto, “Amicitia Amor et Veritas,” which translates to Friendship, Love, and Truth. Odd Fellows promote philanthropy, the ethic of reciprocity, and charity.Īt the front of the pitcher, we see a panel with the words “We are odd Fellows When we act and Do the thing which is Right.”Īround this panel are the words “How grand in Age How fair in Youth is Holly Friendship, Love and Truth.”Ībove the panel is an open palm with a heart symbolic of charity given from the heart. This very large creamware pitcher is fully decorated with the imagery and symbols of the Odd Fellows (see images).
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