Paterna ware

Paterna ware, tin-glazed earthenware produced in the 14th and 15th centuries at Paterna, near Valencia, in eastern Spain. Although pottery was produced in Paterna as early as the 12th century under the Almohads, it was not famous until the reign of the Naṣrids (1230–1492), the last Islāmic dynasty of Spain. Like the works of the other great Hispano-Moresque pottery centres, Valencia, Manises, and Málaga, the stylistic origins of Paterna ware may be traced ultimately to...