Alm dish with Adam and Eve

Brass pLates are among the typical Nuremberg manufactures that arrived via Flanders to the Cantabrian ports between the last quarter of the 15th century and the first third of the 16th century, and from there to the Medina del Campo fairs, acting as redistributors of these merchandise throughout the Iberian Peninsula appearing cited in the inventories of family trousseaus as "Flanders dishes". Although originally they may have had a decorative function, their liturgical use is clear both from the inscriptions they contain and from the name given to them in churches: basins for alms, brass basins for baptism or extreme unction trays. As far as the representations are concerned, they were made in negative on the back of the pLate using matrix and die tempLates, with motifs inspired by woodcuts from the "Nuremberg Chronicle" like this Adam and Eve in Paradise.