Basin, ca. 1650, Made in Puebla, Mexico, Mexican, Tin-glazed earthenware, Diam. 20 3/4 in. ( cm), Ceramics, Master Potter A

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Basin, ca. 1650, Made in Puebla, Mexico, Mexican, Tin-glazed earthenware, Diam. 20 3/4 in. ( cm), Ceramics, Master Potter A, Emily de Forest rightly considered this mid-17th-century basin to be the most important piece of pottery in her collection. Made by an artist who marked it with the initial “A,” this flat-bottomed lebrillo is decorated with a bold pattern of cobalt blue lines whose interstices are filled with fine black lines and dots that imitate lacework

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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