Italian ceramic art : Figure design and other forms of ornamentation in 15th century Italian maiolica
Henry Wallis's 1905 London study published by Quaritch, drawn from the Getty Research Institute's copy, examines decoration on fifteenth-century Italian maiolica for collectors and students of ceramics. The four pictures show brown-line drawings of vessels and a roundel: a two-handled jar with a female head medallion, a shielded amphora bearing a motto banner, a seated woman beside a lion on a plinth, and a circular emblem with the monogram IHS and a date. A designer could draw on their dense interlaced scrollwork, heraldic shield framing, and radiating rays around a central device.
