Speaking Plates - printed narrative scenes on 19th century creamware
10 FEB
21 JAN
Strasse / Nr.: Musée Ariana Avenue de la Paix 10, 1202 Genève
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Veranstaltungsort: Musée Ariana
Strasse / Nr.: Avenue de la Paix 10
Stadt: 1202 Genève
Veranstaltungsdatum: Freitag, 10 Februar 2017 - Sonntag, 21 Januar 2018
Zeit der Veranstaltung: Tuesday to Sunday: 10 am to 6 pm Annual closure on 25th of Decembre and 1st of January 2018
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Webseite: http://www.geneve.com/en/object/589724.manifestation/
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A real fashion phenomenon in the 19th cenutry, so-called “speaking“ creamware plates feature a narrative scene and caption. The themes are extremely diverse: military life, hunting, monuments or French urban and rural social customs. Fables, rebuses, proverbs and popular songs are likewise represented or recorded on these often satirical or caricatural pièces. The wells of hte plates can be decorated with solemn vignettes depicting the glory of France - military exploits or patriotic exaltation - and with humourous, less flattering scènes in which men, women, bourgeois society, peasants or foreigners are mocked. No one is spared!
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