. International studio. ut, be that as it may,there can be no doubt that the secret of the me-tallic reflex was known, in the ninth century of theChristian era, to the potters of Bagdad, whence,through Northern Asia probably, it found its waywith the Moors into the Spanish peninsula. Thereits manufacture was so far established among theinvading population as to attract special commentand description in the first half of the twelfth cen-tury. Unfortunatel), however, there is no authenti-cated specimen known of this early date ; nor doesthe ware become adequately represented beforethe fourteenth
. International studio. ut, be that as it may,there can be no doubt that the secret of the me-tallic reflex was known, in the ninth century of theChristian era, to the potters of Bagdad, whence,through Northern Asia probably, it found its waywith the Moors into the Spanish peninsula. Thereits manufacture was so far established among theinvading population as to attract special commentand description in the first half of the twelfth cen-tury. Unfortunatel), however, there is no authenti-cated specimen known of this early date ; nor doesthe ware become adequately represented beforethe fourteenth century. Indeed, examples belong-ing to this period are so rare that a man may easilyreckon them upon his fingers. Of the followingcentury, however, it is otherwise. Though almostalways an object de luxe, in the fifteenth century,and thenceforward until the practical extinction ofthe craft in the first quarter of the seventeenthcentury, lustre ware became more and more knownand esteemed, ^\hat opus Anglicanum was among. KIC. 4. —REVERSE OF DISH (MALAGA ORVALENCIA, LATE XV. CENT.) Hispano-Moresque Lustre Ware
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