An Hispano-Moresque lustre pottery dish, Valencia, probably Manises, 1525-1560

with raised central boss and sloping rim with moulded leaves, the boss painted with a stylised tree within a solid lustre border, the cavetto with leaf-form lustre cartouches enclosing trefoils and split-palmettes on a ground of scattered leaves, the rim with further leaves and florets, the back with concentric lines and stylised leaves

Some repairs to the rim with associated plaster infill and overpainting, original drilled rim holes have been infilled, some rubbing to the glaze, as viewed
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The design relates to a group of dishes attributed by Ray to Manises, 1525-1560. For related examples and a full discussion of the "trefoil group", see Ray 2000, nos.238-243, pp.120-122. A similar example sold in these rooms, Important Spanish and Iznik Pottery from a European Private Collection, 11 October 2006, lot 72.