A Hispano-moresque lustre pottery dish, probably Catalonia, Reus, 1575-1600

of deep rounded form with a wide rim and raised central boss, moulded and decorated with gold lustre, the cavetto with scrolling split-palmettes reserved on a gold ground, the rim with four moulded monumental leaves interspersed with flowering stems and dot and cross-hatch roundels, the reverse with narrow concentric bands bordered by scrolls

Abrasions, chips and drill hole to rim, abrasion to boss, as viewed.
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For related examples in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see Ray 2000, no.279 p.138.