. Illustrated catalogue of an extraordinary collection of Greek, Saracenic, Mesopotamian and Persian faïences, glass and other objects of exceeding rarity and artistic beauty. First Afternoon No. 134HISPAXO-MAURESQUE DISH (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 15 inches Circular shape, with raised bars. Center occupied with a pat-terning of floral sprays and quatrefoils in copper lustre. Borderpatterned with floral sprays and branches of heart-shaped leavesin blue and copper lustre. No. 135 HISPAXO-MAURESQUE LUSTRED FAIEXCE ALBA-RELLO (Sixteenth Century) Height, 11% inches Cylindrical shape, with inc
. Illustrated catalogue of an extraordinary collection of Greek, Saracenic, Mesopotamian and Persian faïences, glass and other objects of exceeding rarity and artistic beauty. First Afternoon No. 134HISPAXO-MAURESQUE DISH (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 15 inches Circular shape, with raised bars. Center occupied with a pat-terning of floral sprays and quatrefoils in copper lustre. Borderpatterned with floral sprays and branches of heart-shaped leavesin blue and copper lustre. No. 135 HISPAXO-MAURESQUE LUSTRED FAIEXCE ALBA-RELLO (Sixteenth Century) Height, 11% inches Cylindrical shape, with incurved sides and short cylindrical with an ivory-colored glaze and decorated in lustredbrown, blue and black with vertical lines, two bands of pseudo-Cufic inscriptions and a narrower band of Saracenic patterningin white reserve on a brown ground. No. 136HISPAXO-MAURESQUE DISH (Seventeenth Century) Diameter, 16 inches Circular shape, with raised gadrooned boss. Interior occupiedwith alternating panels of dotted pattern and pseudo-Cufic in-scriptions in copper lustre. Border decorated with raised ser-rated leaf forms and scrolling* in blue and copper lustre
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