. International studio. KIC. 4. —REVERSE OF DISH (MALAGA ORVALENCIA, LATE XV. CENT.) Hispano-Moresque Lustre Ware. FIG. 5.—LUSTRE DISH \V1 HI DARK BLUE BIRD AND LETTERS (EARLY XV. CENT.) works of the needle, that, in the later middleages, was Hispano-Moresque lustre pottery amongfictiles. It was sought after and treasured through-out the civilised world, more especially in is accounted for the large proportion ofspecimens which not only bear Italian coats-of-arms, showing them to have been produced for con-temporary Italian families of wealth and position,but display shields


. International studio. KIC. 4. —REVERSE OF DISH (MALAGA ORVALENCIA, LATE XV. CENT.) Hispano-Moresque Lustre Ware. FIG. 5.—LUSTRE DISH \V1 HI DARK BLUE BIRD AND LETTERS (EARLY XV. CENT.) works of the needle, that, in the later middleages, was Hispano-Moresque lustre pottery amongfictiles. It was sought after and treasured through-out the civilised world, more especially in is accounted for the large proportion ofspecimens which not only bear Italian coats-of-arms, showing them to have been produced for con-temporary Italian families of wealth and position,but display shields shaped in such peculiarly charac-teristic fashions as imply no mere verbal blazoning,but that actual drawings by Italian hands musthave been supplied to the Moorish ware was imported into this country in thesixteenth century, if not earlier. Iving Rene ofAnjou in his private chapel had lavabo dishes of terre de Valence (as the Inventory describes thiskind of pottery, because Valencia became the mostnotable centre of its manufacture and export) ; andseeing that Renes daughter, Margaret, became, by


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