the tin-glazed lustre earthenware body decorated in cobalt blue and overglaze lustre with horizontal registers of ivy leaves on curling stems

Ex-collection Thomas F. Flannery, Chicago
Ex-collection Edwards R. Lubin inc.

Some minor scratches and abrasion, upper and lower rim missing some glaze otherwise intact and well preserved, as viewed.
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This is a fine example of a group of Albarella whose style is typical of ceramics from the Valencian town of Manises. From the late fourteenth century, Manises became famous for its production of cobalt-blue and lustre-ware and, along with Paterna, it developed into one of the two most important Valencian centres of production of Hispano-Moresque pottery (Caiger-Smith 1973, pp.65-80). The special attraction of the work from Manises was the lustre glaze, characterised by an orange-gold produced with a silver pigment and about a tenth part of copper (ibid, pp.69-72). According to Caviró, the pointed leaf, the looped flower, the fern ornament and the Bryonia motif all date to 1425-50 (Balbina Martinez Caviró, Ceramica Hispanomusulmana, Andalusi y mudejar, Madrid, 1991, p.158, fig.158).