Plate - Pisces Bruegel (Schiffmacher Royal Blue Tattoo)

Plate - Pisces Bruegel (Schiffmacher Royal Blue Tattoo)

"The big fish eat the small ones" is an engraving from 1556 by the southern Dutch print artist Pieter van der Heyden after a design by Pieter Bruegel. The work is ownned by the Boijmans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam.

Henk Schiffmacher made his own (contemporary) tattoo interpretation.


Cooperation Henk Schiffmacher and Royal Delft
Delft Blue pottery and tattoos may not be the most obvious combination, but they have more in common than thought. Parallels can be found in origin, meaning, craft and mastery.

The Schiffmacher Royal Blue Tattoo collection is a unique collaboration between two traditional crafts from an ancient world. Sea brought here from the east. Rich in culture, tradition and symbolism. Art forms that are applied manually once. With a needle in the skin or with a brush on the biscuit.

Especially for this collaboration, Henk Schiffmacher has designed a number of unique objects with the master painters of Royal Delft, where the two worlds literally touch. The Schiffmacher Royal Blue Tattoo collection consists of both hand-painted items and transferred pieces.

Layered, deeply rooted and with respect, an ode to Delft Blue and the art of tattooing.

Details

• Shape: round plate

• Dimensions: 28 cm

• Not dishwasher safe

• Not microwave safe

• Screen printing technique