Blue and white tin glazed circular stand
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A Portuguese faience stand, 17th century
Circular with a flaring upright rim and a sectioned ridge in the centre of the stand, possibly for holding a ewer, painted in blue outlined in manganese, the centre with a Chinoiserie figure in a European landscape, a windmill and church in the background, the wide band under the rim decorated with fantastical birds alternating with renaissance buildings and shrubbery, 28cm diam (typical rim chips, one haircrack)
Sold for £1,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • The shape of this stand with its raised rim can be found on another dish, albeit with a different decoration, in Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon (Portugese Faience Guide), p. 49, similar decoration of birds can be found on a plate in the same publication, p. 127, inv.nr 311 Cer.

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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