17th century Salzburg Faience
Plate with Horsemen Workshop Thomas Obermillner ca. 1675
The blue curved and shaded band is a characteristic of Thomas Obermillner’s workshop.
The dark waves are outlined with a lighter-coloured band. This divides the surface into several pictorial fields, which are decorated with different motifs mostly hunting decoration but as well other topics.
The wave band decorated faience of the Obermillner workshop is unique and very recognizable.
No other known European ceramics have the blue band as a decoration characteristic.
The plates of the Obermillner workshop are artistically designed and unfold their exceptional impression by being divided into segments with room for decoration on a flat plate even better than on a cylindrical jug. Shown by this very elaborately designed example with horesmen and resting doe.
A very rare example of the characteristic design of the Obermillner Workshop of museum quality. There are only 2 known reference objects in the form of a plate – presumably meant as a decorative wall plate and not for use as a dish in the Salzburg Museum.
Reference Objects Collection Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum Salzburg
Reference Object Collection MAK Wien
Reference Objects Collection Peter Vogt
Literature
Blaue Welle – grüne Flamme: Salzburger und Gmunder Fayencen 17.-19. Jahrhundert.
Aus der Sammlung des Carolino Augusteum Svoboda, Christa und Wolfram Morath (Hrsg.) Salzburg : Carolino Augusteum, 1999
Ausstellungskatalog von 1999 die Besonderheiten der Fayencen aus der Obermillner Werkstatt. S. 16 ff
