Dish
ca. 1500-1530 (made)
| Place of origin |
Cracked and repaired, three spur marks. The reverse undecorated but with some pale blue splashes and green streaks on the rim. Cuerda seca technique.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware with <i>cuerda seca</i> decoration |
| Brief description | Dish, tin-glazed earthenware with cuerda seca decoration, made in Seville, Spain, about 1500-30 |
| Physical description | Cracked and repaired, three spur marks. The reverse undecorated but with some pale blue splashes and green streaks on the rim. Cuerda seca technique. |
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| Object history | Purchase. Formerly in the collection of Juan Facundo Riaño. Part of a revival of cuerda seca technique in the late 15th and early 16th centuries at the time of Ferdinand and Isabella. Fired on cockspurs which marked the surface, the coagulation of the glaze in places on the rim indicates that they were fired upside down. |
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| Other number | 81 - Spanish pottery, Ray (2000) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 300-1893 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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