Long description

This decorative plate is fully coloured and glazed. It depicts the interior of a house, with a tiled floor, a back wall of bricks and a window, a wall to the right as the viewer looks at it, made of slightly larger bricks and a bigger window, and wooden beams for a ceiling. On the left is a four-poster bed, with drapery. Standing beside the bed is a woman half-dressed in a saffron coloured robe (wrapped around her waist and flowing to the floor); she is looking directly at a pair of men on the opposite side of the room. The one, dressed in a short blue robe which covers his chest and loins, is talking to a second man while gesturing with both of his hands towards the woman. The second man is naked, except for a covering over his groin area. He is looking at the woman and has an arrow in his left breast, shot by a cupid figure hovering in the centre of the plate.