Large polychrome dish in Art Nouveau style, which belongs to a series of female profiles from the 1920s, influenced by the Spanish painter Romero de Torres and mostly by the Czech painter Alfons Mucha.
The face of the woman in profile occupies the entire central part of the dish; she is most likely a stylized version of a gypsy; it is hand painted, the face is outlined in light blue, with the use of embossed bright red, yellow and blue pigments that extend without a decorative border along the surface, as a particularity of Ventosa's work.
It was molded in fine light brown clay and finished in a lathe, covered with glassy tin-glazed enamel which is now crackled. The firing process was carried out in a box or covering, it doesn't show signs of direct firing. It has evidence of the use of tripods in the interior of the piece.
The use of an intense red color in the lady's scarf is a particular element of Ventosa's work, although we have not found another specimen by Ventosa with the theme of the gypsy woman and such an extensive use of the red color, hence its particularity.
It is peculiar that the signatures of Ventosa and Uriarte are different from those in other pieces in Museo Amparo. They are outlined in dark blue and Uriarte's stamp is engraved at the center and covered with enamel.
Large polychrome dish in Art Nouveau style, which belongs to a series of female profiles from the 1920s, influenced by the Spanish painter Romero de Torres and mostly by the Czech painter Alfons Mucha.
