A Hispano-moresque pottery lustre dish, probably Valencia, Manises, 1525-60

of shallow rounded form with raised flat boss and wide rim, moulded and decorated in brown lustre, with a central floral rosette the cavetto with five palmettes alternating with scroll-filled roundels, the rim with further palmettes alternating with moulded trefoils all on a ground of scrolling tendrils, the reverse with leaf fronds and a rosette encircled by narrow concentric bands

For a similar dish in the Victoria & Albert Museum, see Ray 2000, no.237, p.119.