Hunched tazza, both sides display antiquish heads, 1551-1600?, Limoges. Copper & glass flux and metal oxide & Gold, technique: grisaille. Height: 10.6 - Diameter: 8.8 (feet) & 19.4 (Kuppa). Ident.Nr. K 4990. Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin © Photo: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. 

The "shell" is probably a cover, which has been transformed by its new walk to the shell.Dense, black base enamel, grisaille without Inkarnattönung. Painting in thin Weißlavierungen, in drawing and expression schematically. Axisymmetric compositions: on both sides of the bowl four lorbeergerahmte gold medallions dotted. This includes each male and female busts assigned in pairs. The gusset wear gold vines and rolling mill. On one of these bands is drawn a picture puzzle: A Pope's head in profile, the found on the head, the profile of a "devil", a bulbous man with a wild mane reproduces. Similar vessels with medallion heads are now in many collections. SN