Suit

Arnold Scaasi

Fall 1971

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Large, deep polychrome majolica charger, or plate, in the istoriato style, in the middle with a scene in shades of blue, orange, green, and brown of Julius Caesar in Roman garb with cloak surrounded by Roman townspeople distributing and receiving wine and food within a courtyard defined by architectural structures and columns, probably based on a drawing by Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-66), the border decorated with grotesques on a whitened ground incorporating fantastic birds, part-human creatures, scrolls, stylized urns, and medallions imitating engraved gems, at the top the coat-of-arms of the Petrocchini family of Montelparo, Italy, the outer edge decorated in a modified egg-and-dart pattern; the reverse with a series of bright yellow bands and painted with the inscription SON FATTI DONI AL POPVLO ROMAO
Oval medallion of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and in white relief the figure of the Muse of Tragedy Melpomene classically dressed and with dagger and cup.
Female Figure with Amphora, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz, cast iron
Vase of goblet shape on round foot, of white stoneware covered with a yellow glaze, the main body with yellow and white stripes, above a band of beading and against a yellow ground a band of molded swags, immediately below the lip a band of black and white checkerboard pattern, the interior white.