Plaque

A plaque in the shape of a spindle, fully decorated with en grisaille enamel against a black background with gildings. The face presents a sitting woman breastfeeding an infant, surrounded by four playing naked children. Two of them have garlands on their heads, and one is shown with a horn of plenty in its hands. At the top, on
the left, there is an obliterated inscription: ‘CHARITAS’.

The plaque was shown to the Warsaw audience during An Exhibition of Antique and Art Objects in the palace of Count August Potocki and his wife at Krakowskie Przedmieście 32 (today the Museum of the University of Warsaw) in 1856. It is described in the catalogue of this exhibition under item 801. It was presumably bought for the collection by Stanisław Kostka Potocki, which was recorded in his Business Diary... kept, e.g., for the documentation of purchases of works of art in 1897–1812.

Joanna Paprocka-Gajek