Italian Ceramic Wall Charger by Richard Ginori with Grotesque Masks
A good Italian ceramic wall charger by Richard Ginori, painted with double grotesque masks and mythical birds, painted mark to base. Diameter 16.54 in.
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- Charger - An oversize dish or plate in ceramic, silver, or pewter primarily made for display, but able to be used for serving at the table or on a sideboard.
- Grotesque - Grotesque decoration is any fanciful ornament applied to furniture and decorative arts, and includes distorted faces, mythical animals such as satyrs and sphinxes and less frequently fantastical fruit and flower forms.
The Martin Brothers who set up their pottery at the end of the nineteenth century in Southall, Middlesex derived their fame from their hand made models of grotesque stoneware birds.
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