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The role of the stands for the baskets was for the most part determined by their functional purpose, but not entirely. The peculiarities of the model meant that both the baskets and their stands were devoid not only of landscape decoration, but also of the characteristic painted border that played an important role in the visual unity of the dessert section of the service. But the pierced rim of the stands was made in such a way as to resemble those borders - with the colours reversed, admittedly. The interlocking vertical stretched petals that made up the ornamental bands embellishing the dessert ware were light (the colour of the ceramic paste itself), but their middles were filled with contrasting dark paint. In the case of the pierced rims of the stands everything is the other way around. The edges of the petals were given an expressive dark outline in order to make them more noticeable and so their shapes fitted more easily into the general harmony of ornamental correspondences. |
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