dish
- Museum number
- 1855,1201.72
- Description
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Dish; earthenware; gently curving sides, narrow rim with ridge and slight convex centre; covered both sides in a white tin-glaze with blue specks; painted with a matt brown lustre and blue which has run; obverse, in the centre a running hind surrounded by scrolls and pointed ovals, one large oval filled with arabesque scrolls; sides of dish outlined with bands of lustre and blue; on the rim an inscription with bands of foliage between; reverse, in the centre of base a wheel with spokes; towards the edges diagonal lines between two broad concentric bands, all lustre; one protrusion drilled for suspension. Inscription in Spanish in sections on the rim: senta cata lina gua rda nos.
- Production date
- 1420-1430 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 39.90 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Compare dish in Cluny with similar decoration and hind with Ave Maria...., there dated 1440-60, see Reflets d'or, Paris 2008, no. 63.
Bibliography: de Lasarte 1952 p.52, fig.80; González Marti 1944 p.432, fig.529.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Rim chips, once cracked in two, repaired.
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Acquisition notes
- Sold at Piot sale, paris, 1847, lot 52, where it was bought by John Coleman Isaac.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1855,1201.72
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BL.1900 (Bernal Collection)
