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<p>[QUOTE="Marote, post: 10213080, member: 84568"](sorry [USER=3235]@Drew[/USER] for adding another reply that has nothing to do with your item/question <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie17" alt=":bag:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>The site says:</p><p>"The presented plate was undoubtedly made to order. It depicts two men and a woman dressed, by 18th century standards, in highly incomplete attire. There is also a dog painted, which has an ambivalent symbolic meaning, signifying impurity and corruption rather than fidelity and friendship. The use of yellow paint indicates the association of woman and dog with betrayal and shamelessness. [...] A plate with such a situational scene and a very telling inscription is probably a joke, an anecdote or perhaps a warning in an unusual form."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marote, post: 10213080, member: 84568"](sorry [USER=3235]@Drew[/USER] for adding another reply that has nothing to do with your item/question :bag:) The site says: "The presented plate was undoubtedly made to order. It depicts two men and a woman dressed, by 18th century standards, in highly incomplete attire. There is also a dog painted, which has an ambivalent symbolic meaning, signifying impurity and corruption rather than fidelity and friendship. The use of yellow paint indicates the association of woman and dog with betrayal and shamelessness. [...] A plate with such a situational scene and a very telling inscription is probably a joke, an anecdote or perhaps a warning in an unusual form."[/QUOTE]
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