Shallow Dish / Anonymous Hispano-Mooresque
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.119
- Title
- Shallow Dish
- Artist
- Anonymous Hispano-Mooresque
- Artist Nationality
- Hispano-Mooresque
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with luster
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Spain (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Spain (nation)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Hispano-Mooresque
- Dimensions
- 3.3 cm x 34 cm x 34 cm (1 5/16 in. x 13 3/8 in. x 13 3/8 in.)
- Century
- 16th-17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- dish
- Physical Description
- This shallow dish features a recessed center with a slightly convex boss and a wide rim. The boss is encircled by a band of degenerate Gothic script. The rim is painted with zigzags, and the empty areas of the pattern are filled with dots and floral motifs.
- Subject Matter
- This dish is a later example of Spanish lusterware, a type of glazed earthenware first produced in Christian Europe by Muslim artists working in fourteenth-century Spain. This type of ware was valued for both the opaque white glaze that provided an unrivaled background for more colorful painted decoration and the luster glaze produced by a final firing, which gave the ceramics an attractive metallic iridescence. By the fifteenth century, such lusterwares were produced in several centers in Christian Spain and were exported widely. Although Christian artists took over the production of such lusterwares during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the designs on later dishes still reveal this Islamic heritage.
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by function
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- vessels for serving and consuming food
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 923 x 895
- File Size
- 96 KB
- Record
- 1972/2.119
- Link to this Item
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"Shallow Dish; Anonymous Hispano-Mooresque." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1972-sl-2.119/1972_2.119.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
