Dish

The large and fairly deep circular emblazoned dish, with a broad rim, has a blue border and a fine manganese band around four “spiders” (the corrupted Portuguese drawing of the Chinese artemisia leaf), outlined in manganese and filled in with blue, alternating with four bulbous flowers . The beginning of the wall is marked off with blue borders and the bottom of the dish has a central reserve defined by a concentric band around the coat of arms of the Silva family – a pointed shield, outlined in manganese, with a blue lion in the middle, in slight relief. This shield is also crowned on the outside by an open helmet and flanked by a composition of arabesques.