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Bawdy Phallic Plate Heads for Oxford
Reuters/Yahoo ^
| 9/18/03
Posted on 09/18/2003 7:34:35 AM PDT by martin_fierro
A leading British museum has paid $387,000 for a Renaissance plate which shows a male head made up entirely of phalluses.
The Italian plate is thought to have been made by ceramicist Francesco Urbini in the 16th century.
It shows a head made up of around 50 fleshy penises, wrapped round each other to form a dense, knotted whole.
The head is framed by a garland carrying the inscription: "Ogni homo me guarda come fosse una testa de cazi" (Every man looks at me as if I were a dickhead).
The phrase is still a common term of abuse in Italy and elsewhere.
Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, which has bought the plate, describes it as "one of the most extraordinary and fascinating pieces of Italian maiolica (a style of ceramic painting) in existence."
It is a rare example of bawdy Renaissance art which survived the suppression of later, more prudish, generations, it said.
The Ashmolean said the inspiration for the plate remains obscure but it was painted "presumably with an individual in mind."
TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Humor; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: butisitart; eurotrash; phallicplate; testadecazi
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To: martin_fierro
Well, let's see if they let this image stay on the thread. It's posted on Yahoo! News, so I'm guessing it's OK to show it here.
To: Charles Henrickson
Heh. Counting down...
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posted on
09/18/2003 10:56:53 AM PDT
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martin_fierro
(Please direct all Quality Control complaints to Tijeras_Slim)
To: Charles Henrickson
11:17 am PST and STILL THERE! <|:)~
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09/18/2003 11:16:45 AM PDT
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martin_fierro
(Please direct all Quality Control complaints to Tijeras_Slim)
To: martin_fierro
Wonder if this plate will appear on the Antics Road Show.
To: Charles Henrickson
I'll be watching for it on While You Were Out Whoring Around
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posted on
09/18/2003 11:36:09 AM PDT
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martin_fierro
(Please direct all Quality Control complaints to Tijeras_Slim)
To: Charles Henrickson
Yikes.....people on this thread are getting a little
teste'. Think I'll head over to breaking news.
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09/18/2003 1:16:35 PM PDT
by
SouthernFreebird
(constipated people don't give a crap.)
To: martin_fierro
Hey - it's 4pm the next day, and it's STILL there! I guess the humor forum really is the back room.
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09/19/2003 4:06:02 PM PDT
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ErnBatavia
(Why do the Flag postage stamps peel off upside down..infiltrators?)
To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Ping for you to # 21.
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09/19/2003 4:07:57 PM PDT
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Argh
To: Argh; martin_fierro
dickhead.....they say that like it's a bad thing........
To: All
So...the artist was a Jewish boy? Did his mother know what he was doing for a living?
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