Jug

17th century

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 535

The bold, sketchily drawn designs on this jug are typical of Talavera, in Castile, where potters broke with the Hispano-Moresque lusterware tradition to develop a vivacious polychrome pictorial style related to northern Italian wares of the period.

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Object Information

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Provenance

Title: Jug
Date: 17th century
Culture: Spanish, Talavera de la Reina
Medium: Tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions: Height: 14 in. (35.6 cm)
Classification: Ceramics-Faience
Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894
Object Number: 94.4.62
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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