Lot 48
HISPANO MORESQUE LUSTRE DISH
VALENCIA (MANISES), MID 16TH CENTURY
Auction: 30 March 2011 at 12:00 BST
£938
Description
the central raised boss painted with a flower head within a rosette enclosed by a band of diamond shaped motifs, the border with raised flower heads against a field of leaves and ferns, with a pierced hanging hole; the reverse roughly executed with stylised ferns, scrolls, whorls and concentric bands around a central flower head
Dimensions
38.5cm diameter
Footnote
Note: See Anthony Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 - with catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum London 2000, Cat. 230, pg. 117 for variation of this shape and decoration