Molded Dish with an Allegory of Love

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Molded Dish with an Allegory of Love

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Date
about 1535
Medium
Tin-glazed earthenware
Culture
Italian
Department
Decorative Arts
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
acebb024-2e55-42c5-9721-7e70a214e139

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An unknown potter formed this fluted dish called a *crespina,*meaning rippled or wrinkled, on a form or mold to imitate the shape of contemporary metalwork. The young man in the center of this decorative dish is bound to a tree. As he is bound to the tree, so he is bound by love. In keeping with this theme, a narrow, twisted rope encircles the central scene. This allegory of love as a bittersweet force that holds its victims captive was popular in sixteenth-century Italy.

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