Sat Feb 23, 2019 07:28 PM

Morning Modelbuch (2/24/2019)

I ran into a source of patterns in use that I hadn’t considered previously. There is a style of ceramic that is popular in the 1530’s, and for a few decades after, that features beautiful women in fabulous dresses. It’s called Bella Donna style maiolica. Plenty of the plates have just sort of a sketchy impression, but others have really detailed patterning at collars, partlets and cuffs. This particular one at the V and A reminded me of some of the collar patterns from _Il Burato_ http://m.vam.ac.uk/collections/item/O161152/dish-unknown/

Paganino’s _Il Burato_ The link is to the 1909 reprint of the 1527 edition https://archive.org/details/ilburatolibroder00paga/page/n147