A dish in cuerda seca style from Seville
Back to Time PeriodThis dish from Preston Street, the only complete example of its type excavated in Britain, illustrates the more complicated technique of cuerda seca ('dry cord'), in which the outlines of the pattern on the face of the dish were laid out in wax; then different colours of glaze were placed within each part of the design. The glazes often ran together, so the result was often messy. This example shows a bird in a mix of tin glazes (white and blue) with lead glazes.
Acknowledgments: RAM Museum Exeter Archaeology