Decorated as a basket, the small cavetto in copper luster with the monogram IHS symbolizing Christ, the wide border with radiating panels of briony vine and parsley 'woven' between staves to form the sloping sides of a basket, the underside with a copper luster line spiraling out as concentric banding
17 in. (43.5 cm.) diameter

Fernandez Collection, Paris.
George and Florence Blumenthal, New York.
Bequest of George Blumenthal to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1941 (41.100.308).
Acquired directly from the museum post 1960, date unknown.

Stella Rubenstein-Bloch, Catalogue of the Collection of George and Florence Blumenthal, 1926, vol. III, pl. XXXIII.

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Similar examples are in the Cluny Museum, Paris and the Burrell Collection, Glasgow. For comparisons, see Collection Chabrières-Arlès, untitled and undated collection catalogue, plate 50; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Collection Michel Boy,15 May 1905, lot 53; Albert Van de Put and Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Collection of Pottery and Porcelain... of Mr. Otto Beit, 1916, pl. VII; Tancred Borenius, Catalogue of a Collection of Pottery Belonging to W.H. Woodward, 1928, pl. V; Juan Ainaud de Lasarte, "Ceramica y Vidrios", Ars Hispanae, Madrid, 1952, p. 64, figs. 154, 155; and Anthony Ray, Spanish Pottery 1248-1898, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2000, pp. 73-77.