Ceremonial Plate

Historically, ceremonial plates were large ornamental dishes: they were hung to display pomp and taste. Here, the idea returns, but with a different language. They don’t celebrate a banquet: they celebrate the gaze. The wall becomes a face, the room becomes a stage.

Large Limoges porcelain pieces also designed for the wall, capable of transforming it into a gazing face.
The surface of the plates is animated by a floral pattern that passes through the gaze and lips, like a thin veil. On the textured porcelain, the painting conveys the artist’s gesture.

The AnatomiKa series by Elica Studio celebrates the human body by dissecting it.
We are expression, beyond words and gestures.
A perspective of the flesh in which certain parts become containers.
Here, then, are eyes, hands, feet, and teeth, crafted in porcelain with a figurative “dissection”:
not containers of nerves, veins, bones, or blood, but of ideas and messages.

Plate diameter approx. 42 cm
Height approx. 9 cm