painted in lustre with birds amongst foliage, the reverse with a large bird

Notley Abbey Inventory, April 1948, p. 34, the china room, lobby and flower room, 'A Spanish copper lustre circular dish of scroll design 20" diameter', (The Vivien Leigh Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, THM/433/6/1).

There is extensive wear to lustre of well. There are general rim nibbles and scattered chips around most of the rim. There is a chip at the rim which has been restored with a replacement material, and there is an associated area of re-touching to front surface. The lustre on the reverse is in generally good order.
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