Summary
Jovan Uglješa is the ktetor of the chapel of the Hagioi Anargyroi (1370) in Vatopedi Monastery, Mount Athos. In the apse of this chapel a bowl of the Pula-type is embedded. White glaze, blue and lustre decoration. The bowl is dated around the mid-fourteenth century.
Pula-type ceramics originated in Valencia in the second or third quarter of the fourteenth century with a distribution covering the whole of the Mediterranean. A fragment of a Pula-type bowl survives in the catholicon of Vlatadon Monastery, Thessaloniki. The chapel of Hagioi Anargyroi and the catholicon of Vlatadon Monastery are the only byzantine churches in Macedonia with embedded bowls. This custom spread excessively in Mount Athos only after sixteenth century.
