Basin with the arms of Spannocchi

This deep dish has a central boss intended to support a ewer. It is moulded with relief ornament of crosses and radiating panels, and decorated in brilliant metallic lustre with an interlocking pattern of dense miniaturised leaf motifs. In the centre is a shield of arms, Piccolomini impaling Spannocchi (both of Siena). From the end of the 14th century, Italian merchants active in Valencia organised commissions for the rich merchant families of Tuscany.