Plate

John Neis

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The plate is round and shallow. The plate's background color is beige with brown speckles. A man in green clothing and a white mask plays a horn while riding a brown horse with a white saddle blanket. The horse faces right and rears up on its hind legs. The man holds a horn to his mouth with his right hand and raises his left hand. A green dragon-like creature curls around the horse's front legs. A flower with orange petals and a blue center sits below the horse. A border of green and blue leaves and blue and orange flowers surrounds the edge. The plate's rim is orange-brown. The plate sits on a gray gradient background. Plate by John Neis.