Lusterware of Spain

The Museum's collection of ceramics has been greatly enriched recently by the purchase of nearly a hundred examples of Spanish lusterware of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The majority of the pieces are Valencian and were made in the fifteenth century, giving a very thorough picture of the stylistic development of majolica in Spain in its early phases, which had such wide-spread effects throughout Europe. The collection was purchased for The Cloisters from