Lot Essay
Cf. Las lozas de Talavera Y Puente Exhibition Catalogue, Madrid (1989), pls. 11-13, pp. 62 & 63 for the type
EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Details
A Talavera dish
Early 17th century
Boldly painted with a quarter length bust portrait of a warrior in profile to the left, wearing an elaborate jewelled scale-pattern helmet with fluttering plumes, his shoulders draped in blue and orange stripes, a flowering plant before him (crack at 9 o'clock, pierced at 12 o'clock and with slight rim chip)
13in. (33cm.) diam.
Early 17th century
Boldly painted with a quarter length bust portrait of a warrior in profile to the left, wearing an elaborate jewelled scale-pattern helmet with fluttering plumes, his shoulders draped in blue and orange stripes, a flowering plant before him (crack at 9 o'clock, pierced at 12 o'clock and with slight rim chip)
13in. (33cm.) diam.
Exhibited