CATALOGUE

    STYLE PLATE 
    "SPIRALI ARANCI"
El Sotanillo (Alicante)


Ceramics
h:17,6 cm, w: 3 cm
Montelupo Workshop (Italy)
Mid-16th century 

 

A dish with a concave base with a solid rim, a thickened, straight, projecting rim on the outside, and a hemispherical body with atifle marks on the inside. Polychrome glazed decoration in the 'spirali aranci' style. This type of decoration is composed on the base of the piece, tracing a central geometric motif from which spirals start and complete the inside of the dish. Two thick concentric bands run around the rim of the piece.
These dishes have their origin in the Tuscan workshop of Montelupo (Italy), being an evident proof of the numerous commercial contacts between the Italic Peninsula and the city of Alicante during the 16th century, where it became one of the most important ports of the Kingdom of Valencia.
CS: 11316
MENENDEZ FUEYO, J.L. and LÓPEZ PADILLA, J.A., 2005.