Beschreibung:

Spain, Valencia (Manises), 17th - 18th Century
A series of Hispano-Moresque plates painted with brown lustre. The two umbonate bowls with slightly pod motifs around the edge and minute stylised plant are from an earlier period and take up a decoration that was largely used in the Valencian pottery of the 15th and 16th centuries, whilst the two with semi-circle motifs and small leaves are from a later production. All the objects present traditional "metal spiral" or concentric linear decoration on the reverse. Spanish lustreware enjoyed its golden period in the 15th and 16th centuries when it was considered a luxury in the European and above all Italian, noble households, as those ceramics show by bearing the family's coat of arms - of the Dazzi, Gentili or Agli families - that today are in "The Cloisters" Collection (MET). The success on the Italian market was such as to justify a ban by the Venetian Senate in 1455 that prohibited the introduction into the domains of the Republic of foreign "lauori de terra cotta" with the exception of "corzuoli e Majolica de Valencia" who were therefore exempt from import duty (see . Paola Torre, Alcune collezioni di ceramiche ispano-moresche conservate nelle raccolte pubbliche italiane, in Atti VII convegno internazionale della ceramica, Albisola 1974, p. 117). The diffusion that ensued explains the influence they exerted on Italian pottery and the large number of Hispano-Moorish pieces that today are found in Italian museums. Enamelled earthenware with lustre decoration Repairs.
Dim. (Diametro) 34 cm