A grand Hispano-Moresque armorial charger with briony flower and parsley leaf decoration

This charger would most likely have been produced as the centre-piece of a larger domestic commission, given the inclusion of a heraldic shield. Like the small number of surviving lustred chargers of this type, the armorial shield appears against a ground of brownish-copper lustred bryony flowers within a cobalt blue rope-twist circle. A closely related example of a Manises charger with a coat of arms within rope-twist circle and bryony flower field is held in the Victoria and Albert Museum and must have been made in the same workshop.