Antique Majolica Plate with Drippy Dog necklace This lovely matte green glazed

This lovely matte green glazed mission style vessel would be terrific as a planter or cachepot

16 3/4" w  x 14 7/8" t x 3 7/8" d

long ago it appears

and what a lot of love and use it appears to have seen

Antique Majolica Plate with Drippy Dog necklace This lovely matte green glazedI'm not attracted to this sort of majolica as a rule, but I sure love this plate. Specifically, I love this dog, which but for the glazing one might take for a lamb, and what could be better than a lamb like dog!? And in this case the drippy, painterly green and brown animating the border seem just right, coloring what look to me like cabbages to nibble on. And with some drippy yellow too, as if our dog has marked its territory! With the fairly faint