AN HISPANO-MORESQUE COPPER-LUSTRE POTTERY BASIN
Post-Nasrid Spain, 19th century

Of typical deep conical shape, resting on a flat plain base, rising to an everted flattened rim with ridged end, painted in copper lustre and cobalt blue against a white ground, the basin's centre with a cusped European blazon including a tree, a tower, a multi-patterned, marital blazon, and a panel of vertical lines, all against a hatched ground within concentric cobalt blue lines, the cavetto with a band of bold pseudo-Kufic calligraphy and rosette cartouches, the rim with a sinuous fretwork band and solid lustre paint around the edge, the exterior with a band of cobalt blue and lustre diamond grid above spiralling vegetal trellis with fruits, 32cm diam. and 13cm high.