Dish

This dish was part of the diner service of Philip III the Good, Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders (Dijon, 1396-Bruges, 1467), creator of the Order of the Golden Fleece, established in 1429 on the occasion of his marriages to Isabel of Avis, daughter of John I of Portugal. The center is occupied by arms of the Duke surrounded by decorative elements of Islamic tradition as the Tree of Life and “alafias” (geometric abstraction from the Arabic word al`áfya).