Lot 343
343
AN HISPANO MORESQUE LARGE CIRCULAR DISH painted in blue and pale copper lustre, the centre with the sacred monogram IHS in Gothic script within a border with radiating trailing flowering bryony, foliage and tendrils, the underside broadly painted with two bands of bryony and foliage, pierced for hanging (broken at 4.30 and 6 o'clock and about the centre and repaired, slight rim chips and glaze flaking), Valencia, late 15th century

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AN HISPANO MORESQUE LARGE CIRCULAR DISH painted in blue and pale copper lustre, the centre with the sacred monogram IHS in Gothic script within a border with radiating trailing flowering bryony, foliage and tendrils, the underside broadly painted with two bands of bryony and foliage, pierced for hanging (broken at 4.30 and 6 o'clock and about the centre and repaired, slight rim chips and glaze flaking), Valencia, late 15th century
46cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. the example from the collection of the late William Randolph Hearst, sold in these Rooms on 13 May 1963, lot 87 and another in the collection of the Hispanic Society of America, illustrated by Edwin A. Barber, Hispano-Moresque Pottery, pl. XII, no. 16

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