Alberobello souvenir wall plaque with painted trulli houses in a brown scroll frame, Whaleworx Lot 253
Alberobello souvenir wall plaque with painted trulli houses in a brown scroll frame, Whaleworx Lot 253
Alberobello souvenir wall plaque with painted trulli houses in a brown scroll frame, Whaleworx Lot 253, detail
Alberobello souvenir wall plaque with painted trulli houses in a brown scroll frame, Whaleworx Lot 253, detail
Alberobello souvenir wall plaque with painted trulli houses in a brown scroll frame, Whaleworx Lot 253, detail

Lot 253 — Alberobello Trulli Souvenir Wall Plaque

A molded, hand-painted wall plaque of the trulli of Alberobello, the cone-roofed stone houses of southern Italy, set in a fat brown baroque scroll frame with “ALBEROBELLO” on the shield below. Chips show pink underneath.

Artist
Unknown maker
Dimensions
Not yet measured
Materials
Molded and hand-painted relief (material not confirmed); chips on the frame showing pink and white underneath

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Description

A postcard ye can hang on the wall. Inside a round window, a little village of trulli climbs a hill: whitewashed houses with gray stone cone roofs and white finials, green shutters, puffy green trees and a stone wall windin’ up the lane. Everything is raised in relief, so the roofs and trees stand right off the plaque.

Around it, a chocolate-brown frame of curls and scrolls, crowned at the top and finished at the bottom with a shield that reads “ALBEROBELLO.” There’s faint script lettering along the inside of the rim the Captain hasn’t been able to make out. The frame has chips and rubs all over its high points, showin’ a pink layer and some white underneath. Age and maker unknown.

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