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A PORTUGUESE MAIOLICA BLUE AND WHITE DISH
Lot 512

A PORTUGUESE MAIOLICA BLUE AND WHITE DISH

SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY

Closed31 May 2012

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GBP 3,750

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A PORTUGUESE MAIOLICA BLUE AND WHITE DISH
SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY
Painted in the Wanli style with a bird among flowering shrubs and rockwork within a border of stylised flowers and precious objects, the reverse with radiating panels of scrolls (extensively damaged and repaired)
10¼ in. (26 cm.) diam.

Specialist note

See Rafael Salinas Calado et al., Portuguese Faience 1600-1660, Lisbon, 1987, pp. 48-49, no. 15 for a similar plate.