Egypt: Islamic Ceramics - Dish

Dish: Lustre-painted
Andalusia ( Spain ) - 17 century A.D.
Diam.37 cm. - H. 3.5 cm.
Lustre-painted in copper colour on a cream coloured background with a legendary animal in the middle, resembling a lion raising its tail upwards. The external circle has five big leaves on a background of the simple plant decoration, three circles of interlaced lines frame the animal drawing.

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