Dish with Floral Motifs / Anonymous Hispano-Mooresque

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Accession Number
1972/2.120
Title
Dish with Floral Motifs
Artist Nationality
Hispano-Mooresque
Medium and Support
earthenware with luster
Object Creation Date
17th century
Object Creation Place
Europe (continent)
Spain (nation)
Creation Place 1
Europe (continent)
Creation Place 2
Spain (nation)
Style/Group/Movement
Hispano-Mooresque
Dimensions
6.5 cm x 39.5 cm x 39.5 cm (2 9/16 in. x 15 9/16 in. x 15 9/16 in.)
Century
17th century
Primary Object Classification
Ceramic
Primary Object Type
dish
Physical Description
This dish features a recessed center with a central boss decorated with a rosette design. The recessed area and rim are painted with floral motifs and leaf designs arranged in concentric rings.
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.
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"Dish with Floral Motifs; Anonymous Hispano-Mooresque." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1972-sl-2.120/1972_2.120.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
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