Dish with deer Tin-glazed earthenware, with decoration painted
into the glaze Museum no. C.21-1931 From the 8th century to
1492, Spain had both Muslim and Christian rulers. Many cultural
exchanges took place, as when Christians adopted the Muslim
traditions of making, and eating from, luxury ceramics. Paterna,
near Valencia, specialised in tin-glazed wares painted in
manganese and copper (brown and green). The deer design and
leafy scrollwork were also Islamic in origin, but had become
part of the Christian culture of the Mediterranean.