A ceramic lustre bowl fragment, Valencia, Spain, 14/15th century

of fragmentary form, depicting a princely figure in a blue tunic on a light cream ground with mustard-yellow leaves and flowers encrouching at the edges

The fragment in good condition with two small chips to the glaze at the middle left and top right, some fine abrasions and craquelure, as viewed.
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This ceramic fragment belongs to a group of pottery items of the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that originate from Valencia, and which depict courtly figures simply rendered amid loose floral scrolls and scattered flowers.  A comparable example can be found in Cavíro 1991, p.175, pl.178, originating from Manises, which depicts (as in this example) a princely youth in blue tunic against a vegetal ground.