Wall plate faience hand-painted bird motif Iberian 41 cm

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Large hand-painted faience wall plate, likely produced by a Portuguese or Italian workshop in the second half of the twentieth century. The plate has an unusual rounded-square form with a raised interior rim and is executed in tin-glazed earthenware on a red-orange terracotta body, visible at the foot ring. The central medallion shows a stylised blue bird on a green hillside against a bright yellow background, surrounded by black-brown brush accents and a terracotta-coloured circle border. The broad rim of the plate carries a finely painted pattern of blue scrollwork and rosettes on a cream-white ground.

The motif of the stylised bird in a yellow medallion, surrounded by a fine blue scrollwork border, traces back to the Renaissance repertoire of Italian maiolica and Portuguese faiança from the seventeenth century. From the late nineteenth century onwards, this motif was revived by workshops in Coimbra, Caldas da Rainha, Deruta and Montelupo, which produced the historical imagery in countless variants for the international market. The combination of hand-applied tin glaze, artisanal brushwork, and the characteristic red-orange earthenware body places this example within the tradition of mid-twentieth century Iberian or Italian workshop production.