Hyakintos dinner plate

Hyakintos porcelain plate from the exclusive Metamorphoses Collection series. Original design by illustrator Michal Bačák. The plate comes from a series of several designs – we offer 4 different types of main course plates, 4 different types of soup plates and 4 different types of dessert plates.

The plate can be purchased individually or in discounted sets.

About the theme: Hyacinth was a mortal Spartan prince who enchanted the gods with his selfless beauty. He was passionately in love with Apollo, the god of the sun, and spent his days relaxing in the grass, listening to music and competing in friendly sports. One day, they decided to organise a friendly discus throwing competition. Apollo threw first and had such power that the disc split the clouds in the sky. Hyacinth, eager to get the disc back, ran after it to catch it. However, as he approached, the disc fell to the ground and bounced back, hitting Hyacinth’s head and fatally wounding him. Apollo turned pale as he held his dying lover in his arms. He tried to save him with all possible herbs and even gave him ambrosia, the food of the Olympian gods, to heal Hyacinth’s wound, but it was in vain. He could not heal the wound caused by fate. Apollo wept over Hyacinth’s death and wished to become mortal so that he could join the Spartan boy in the afterlife. But since this was impossible due to his immortality, he promised to remember him forever. Therefore, he transformed Hyacinth’s blood into a flower – a hyacinth – so that he could be admired forever for his immortal beauty. The hyacinth flower held by Apollo symbolises their last moment in each other’s arms.

About the collaboration: The exclusive Metamorphoses Collection series of porcelain plates was created in collaboration between the Artisème design platform and Czech illustrator and artist Michal Bačák. The series is inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses and takes you through four key stories of the epic composition – from myths about the creation of man to fates filled with unhappy love. Pay attention to even the smallest details, because nothing depicted is placed randomly. Each symbol tells a different layer of the story and refers to Ovid’s original texts.

Words record the lives of people since the beginning of time, whether immortalised in spoken language or on written pages. Myths, in turn, gave people hope that God could grant mercy to man and that tragedy could befall even those who were marked by the greatest beauty. Each attribute carefully tells a different level of the story and refers to Ovid’s original texts.

Romzer: ⌀ 26 cm

Material: porcelain

We recommend hand washing.