AN HISPANO-MORESQUE LARGE DISH

CONTINENTAL CERAMICS SPANISH POTTERY THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

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AN HISPANO-MORESQUE LARGE DISH
Valencia, mid-15th century

Of shallow conical form with flat rim, the centre decorated in copper-lustre with the sacred monogram IHS surrounded by radiating panels of meandering brony in underglaze-blue with copper-lustre-centred flowers and scrolling tendrils, the underside broadly painted with underglaze-blue brony and copper-lustre scrolling foliage, pierced for hanging (area of rim restored between 4 o'clock and 6 o'clock and with an associated crack towards the centre, restored rim chips at 1, 2 and 7 o'clock, some very minor areas of restored glaze flaking to flat rim, three slight rim chips to underside)
18in. (46cm.) diam.

Provenance

Sir Otto Beit, Bt., KCMG
Lady Munro, his daughter, sale Sotheby's 15 December 1961, lot 2
Dr. A. Bak, New York, sale Sotheby's, 7 December 1965, lot 2
Anon., sale Sotheby's, 20 March 1973, lot 4

Lot Essay

Cf. another from the collection of William Randolph Hearst, sold in these Rooms on 13 May 1963, lot 87; see also Edwin A. Barber, Hispano-Moresque Pottery, pl. 12, no. 16; and the example from the Francis W. Mark collection sold in these Rooms on 10 July 1923, lot 60

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