Valencian lustreware dish
This dish was discovered during excavations in Exeter. When new it would have been an expensive item as it was decorated with painted golden lustre. The shadows of the former pattern can be traced and are shown in the line drawing above. It is an example of Ligurian maiolica, a type of Italian tin-glazed pottery.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/1713
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- potteryValencian lustrewaretin-glazed earthenware
- Common Name
- Valencian lustreware dish
- Simple Name
- dish (sherd)
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
- Production Year Low
- 1500
- Production Year High
- 1550
