Faience plate

A faience plate, flat, with a gently raised rim. Shaped into six flat arcs, forming the outline of a barely developed six-leaf. It is adorned with a three-dimensional decoration in a concave-convex style, depicting a hen with five chicks. The scene is set against a rural meadow with a faintly visible horizon and a distant mountain range, including the silhouette of a tower. The decoration is painted in underglaze with a modest colour palette. The ground is a light olive-green, while the sky is a light, strongly diluted, blue. The bird is shown with its head lowered, searching for food. Its plumage, tail, and wing feathers are dark grey, with the comb highlighted in red. Of the five chicks, only three in the foreground are lightly painted with ochre-yellow and black for the heads and wings. The remaining two are only visible in relief. On the horizon, to the right, a tree is depicted without any added colour. Part of the sky is left in the pale yellow hue of the glaze. On one of the three stones in the lower right part of the composition, a small embossed signature "AD" is visible.

Michał Rajchert