Mataró Museum. Can Serra

Blue ceramic plate from Catalonia

Blue ceramic plate from Catalonia, 17th century. From Plaça Gran in Mataró. Mataró Museum. Can Serra.

 

Blue ceramic plate from Catalonia, 17th century. From Plaça Gran in Mataró. Mataró Museum. Can Serra.

 

During the excavations that were carried in Plaça Gran in Mataró in 1982, a late mediaeval cache of Catalan ceramics was found. It was a collection of more than 400 pieces of decorated ceramics and more than 500 earthenware and glass objects from the 16th and 17th centuries.

This plate has a border from what is called the “salsitxes dobles” (double sausage) series, and in the centre is the main decorative motif inscribed in blue circles with a yellow strip: a sun with six points whose face is painted blue.

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