Mid-Century Studio Pottery Plate with Abstracted Nude in Landscape silver handware There are a few small

There are a few small stains on the backing fabric

I fell in love immediately with the illustrations on these old Villeroy & Boch enamelware dishes--and then realized they portray three characters from the famous French Guignol puppet theatre

Some aging to the celluloid

by hand I believe

Mid-Century Studio Pottery Plate with Abstracted Nude in Landscape silver handware There are a few smallI LOVE the figure on the face of this plate, strangely and evocatively elongated like a late day shadow, and with these two wonderfully trailing inky black lines lending just a bit of definition and also tension. It makes me think of everything from the paintings of Albert Pinkham Ryder to those of de Chirico to the work of Ana Mendieta to the early 20th century photographs of Anne Brigman (look her up!), and Arts & Crafts era craft, too, and I've