Lot 53
HISPANO MORESQUE LUSTRE DISH
VALENCIA (MANISES), MID 16TH CENTURY
Auction: 30 March 2011 at 12:00 BST
£3,500
Description
in brown lustre and blue glaze, the central boss with radiating blue leaves within a gadrooned band, the border with four flattened leaves in relief outlined in blue against a ground with fruit motifs, trefoils and leaves, the edge with a band of half circle loops, 'de la ungla', with a pierced hanging hole; the reverse painted with patterns of ferns, whorls, and concentric bands around a central flower head
Dimensions
38.5cm diameter
Footnote
Note: See Anthony Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 -- with a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2000, pg. 129 for a discussion about this 'dentil border' group