Designs for Circular Plates, Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828, Pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor, graphite on paper, Horizontal rectangle. Designs for two circular plates with several decorative suggestions. Plate at left: suggested are decorations of the rim at lower left and of intertwined ovoids below a cord motif at upper left. At lower right, shell and bead motifs. At upper right, no decoration is suggested. Plate at right: a flat band in Greek key style decorates the rim at upper left. At upper right, a circle of small beads. Lower half of plate decorated with cord motif.

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