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Hand-painted decorative earthenware plate, repaired

Ceramic

A wide, shallow circular earthenware plate decorated in hand-painted majolica/faience style on a cream glaze. The well carries a loose floral/foliate composition in cobalt blue, rust-red, green, and yellow, arranged around the center with a faint painted cross/quartering; the broad rim has a repeating border of leaf-shaped, dotted-flower, and lens motifs in blue and green between blue concentric line bands. The reverse is glazed cream with an unglazed terracotta foot ring (revealing the red earthenware body), a paper "Made in USSR" label, and a twisted-wire hanging loop fitted across the back. The plate has been broken and is held/displayed in its reassembled state. The style draws on the Central Asian and Ukrainian ceramic traditions that Soviet decorative arts absorbed and standardized for export

2025.1.217

Purchase by María A. Arús Caraballo and displayed at her home for decoration

The Cabrera Arús family collection

María A. Arús Caraballo collection

2025.1

U.S.S.R.

Eastern Europe

Europe

Date: Cannot be confirmed precisely; Soviet (USSR) manufacture. No production date is printed; the "Made in USSR" export label indicates a Soviet-era origin (USSR existed to 1991)

Paper label on the reverse: "Made in USSR / art… " (article-number line, partly torn/illegible). No painted signature, factory backstamp, or date visible.

Materials: Glazed red earthenware (terracotta body visible at the foot ring); hand-applied ceramic colorants under/over a cream glaze; paper label; twisted galvanized-wire hanging loop (a later/owner addition). Technique: Wheel-thrown or molded earthenware (concentric throwing rings visible), tin/cream-glazed and hand-painted (freehand brushwork, majolica/faience manner), glaze-fired. The wire loop is a separately added hanger.

Poor

María A. Arús Caraballo

owner

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

acquisition, use

U.S.S.R.

Eastern Europe

Europe

production