Youth Riding a Rooster is a red-figure plate painted by Epiktetos about 520-510 BC.

Next it hovered over a square plate painted with a bouquet of flowers, several books and a tablecloth.

Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, explores the Russian Revolution by looking at a plate painted with propaganda for the new Communist state.

They carried juggling gear of many kinds, swords and knives and sickles, torches ready to be lit, eggs, plates, gaily painted clubs, and a host of other things.

In third place is the overly theatrical "Raft," in which the plates, often heavily painted, suggest a silvery-blue sea.

The plate painted with an ancient Rhodes galley brings back the bright Mediterranean colors of the week or two we spent sailing around the Dodecanese.

In a town house with gray and aqua details, it prides itself on artistic presentations: plates "painted" with sauces and condiments.

Most of the shops had plates and cups painted with fanciful scenes purporting to show the false Dragon being displayed before the Queen in chains.

The funerary offering included three polychrome ceramics; a tripod plate, a plate painted with the figure of a dancer and a vessel bearing the images of human figures and a jaguar.

Many of the plates painted by Gaspard Viry are signed, often depicting scenes of the chase after engravings by Antonio Tempesta.