Hispano-Moresque Pottery in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America |
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18½ inches ALBARELLO arabesques Arabic blue and luster blue and violet BOWL broad marly Brownish bryony leaves CASA CERVANTES CASTILE-LEON central boss Century PLATE ceramic art changing to blue changing to golden changing to violet circles in luster coarse concentric rings copper creamy ground creamy white curved cavetto decorated DEEP DISH DESIGN.-Divided Diameter DISH Valencia PLATE dotted diapering Egypt enclosing floral flowers in luster FORM.-Deep FORM.-Flat base FORM.-Shallow Fostat glaze godrooned in relief gold color half of fifteenth Height Hispano-Moresque PLATE Hispano-Moresque ware house of Borghese inches iridescent reflec late fifteenth century leaf leaves in blue luster ground luster on creamy LUSTER.-Brownish LUSTER.-Coppery lustered pottery Maiolica Moorish orna ornaments in luster ovals panels Persia PLAQUE Valencia PLATE quarter of fifteenth Reverse ruby Saracenic seventeenth century Seville Siculo-Arab sides sixteenth slightly sloping sloping upward Spain Spanish PLATE stanniferous enamel TAZZA tendrils in luster third quarter tions Valencia Manises vase Veramin vine leaves
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Page lxxxv - Italy, in the pavement of the Caracciolo chapel in the church of S. Giovanni a Carbonara...
Page lxxx - Whether these vases must be attributed merely to the prevalent Italian taste for the ware or not, there is always to be considered the pos[259] sibility that they were a gift to the Pope. Among those raised to the cardinalate, by Paul V., is found a member of a distinguished Valencian family, Caspar Borja, son of the sixth duke of (iandia, who received the hat in 1611 and died in 1645. "The design of the arms, even for the period, is exceptionally poor.