The decorated plates are the best illustrations of this art whose pincipal centres of production are Persia, Egypt and the Kingdom of Granada. From the fifteenth century onwards, the centres of production are displaced from Catalonia and Manises, areas where Golden Pottery is Christianized, and are transferred to Italy where pottery and ceramics are "rediscovered and re-elaborated" to be returned to a Europe transformed by the Renaissance.

Its production spans various centuries. From the tenth to the fifteenth, it is strictly Moslem, and from the fifteenth to the sixteenth it is created in Manises and Italy.

The decoration of these pieces offers a varied gamut of motifs, abounding in figurative illustrations even in the Moslem pottery; a good example of this is the Persian and Fatimid pottery from the tenth to the twelfth century.

The most characteristic sections of this decoration are the following: floral, feometric, epigraphic, architectonic, faunal, figurative and heraldic.