BROAD-RIMMED PLATE Winterthur, circa 1660–70.

BROAD-RIMMED PLATE

Winterthur, circa 1660–70.
Faience with pale-gray glaze, painted in high-temperature colors. The center depicting a bearded man kneeling beside a smoking fire with a jug, inscribed "HÿMES". The border with a bunch of grapes, two pears and a tulip. Old label to the reverse. Unmarked.
Ø 26 cm.
Restored rim. Small hairline crack.

Provenance:
Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg.

Probably an Allegory of Winter, from the Latin "hiems", forming part of a series of the Four Seasons.