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Paul Heslop (paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk) 2003/09/27 17:08

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elag wrote:
>
> Bawdy Phallic Plate Heads for Oxford
> Thu Sep 18, 8:55 AM ET
>
> LONDON (Reuters) - A leading British museum has paid $387,000 for a
> Renaissance plate which shows a male head made up entirely of phalluses.
>
> see it here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=3&u=/nm/20030918/od_nm/plate_dc
>
> The Italian plate is thought to have been made by
> ceramicist Francesco Urbini in the 16th century.
>
> It shows a head made up of around 50 fleshy penises,
> wrapped round each other to form a dense, knotted
> whole.
>
> The head is framed by a garland carrying the
> inscription: "Ogni homo me guarda come fosse una
> testa de cazi" (Every man looks at me as if I were a
> dickhead).
>
> The phrase is still a common term of abuse in Italy and
> elsewhere.
>
> Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, which has bought the plate, describes it as
> "one of the
> most extraordinary and fascinating pieces of Italian maiolica (a style
> of ceramic painting)
> in existence."
>
> It is a rare example of bawdy Renaissance art which survived the
> suppression of later,
> more prudish, generations, it said.
>
> The Ashmolean said the inspiration for the plate remains obscure but it
> was painted
> "presumably with an individual in mind."

Well, Oxford IS full of knob heads :O)
--
 Paul. (She took his ring, took his babies)
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