Plate
(c. 1928)
Medium
earthenware
Measurements
5.6 × 36.2 cm diameter
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of John McPhee, 2016
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
The Matricardi ceramic factory was founded by the engineer Giuseppe Maria Matricardi in 1922. A year later the factory was under the artistic direction of the painter and illustrator Adolfo de Carolis. During its early years, the factory collaborated with artists from the ceramic-making centres of Faenza, Pesaro and Castelli. This plate, with its references to classical antiquity, is a typical example of the Art Deco style ornamental wares produced by the Matricardi ceramic factory during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Artwork Details
Explore the collection
Clouds
John CONSTABLE
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Painting, 202 x 143, 6 November 1967
Pierre SOULAGES
The plain of Gennevilliers, yellow fields
Gustave CAILLEBOTTE
Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania and Bottom
Edwin LANDSEER
Queen Esther
Edwin LONG
Corset, skirt and 'shoe-boot'
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Alexander McQUEEN (designer); Ian REID (designer)
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
Clock garniture
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator)
The melon
Édouard MANET
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
The Mayor's Cup
William KERR
Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke
William BEECHEY
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
Nude woman reading
Robert DELAUNAY
Coffee pot
GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE, Copenhagen (manufacturer); Henning KOPPEL (designer)
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
Triptych with the miracles of Christ
MASTER OF THE LEGEND OF ST CATHERINE (workshop of)
Big nude I
Helmut NEWTON
Chair
Carlo BUGATTI
The Garden of Love
MASTER OF THE STORIES OF HELEN; Antonio VIVARINI (studio of)
Teacup and saucer
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer)
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
Shield
Unknown
The pioneer
Frederick McCUBBIN
The bent tree
Camille COROT