Lot 423
CONTINENTAL LEAD GLAZED EARTHENWARE PLAQUE DEPICTING 'THE LAST SUPPER', POSSIBLY GERMAN OR NETHERLANDISH
PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
Auction: Five Centuries Day Two | Thurs 12th November | Lots 323 to 579
Description
of circular form with relief moulded decoration, glazed in colours of green, blue, yellow and brown, impressed flowerhead motifs to the border and rim, impressed below the scene MCCCCCXX, the border with the inscription in gothic font ‘Die mijn vleis eet en de meijns bloct eet en de meijn drinct is in meig en de ic in hem’
Dimensions
approximately 30cm diameter
Footnote
The plaque has a paper label to the reverse with a printed description reading 'Old Hafner circular plaque, moulded with figures, the Last Supper, enamelled in green, yellow, blue and brown, the border incised in low German script, translated ’Drink of this Wine and eat this Bread, My Flesh, which is to be broken for you, and do so in Remembrance of Me', Early 16th century'
There is an identical example to this plaque in the V&A, dated as ‘second half 19th century’, on display in the Ceramics Room 137, accession number C.83-1911. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O341501/plaque-unknown/