Figure 8 Dish, Portugal, ca. 1660.
Tin-glazed earthenware. D. 14 5/8 ". (Private collection; photo, Gavin
Ashworth.) An example of a Portuguese enameled dish painted in blue with
manganese outlines of the Wan-Li-style decoration. Large dishes of this
type have been excavated at Jamestown. A similar dish with this rabbit motif
was excavated from another seventeenth-century site near Jamestown.
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