Jar
During the course of the sixteenth century a number of potteries making tin-enameled earthenware came into existence in Talavera de la Reina, a small town some sixty miles southwest of Madrid. The town supplied plain wares that were greatly admired for the beauty of their white surface—the "bianco"—and others that were decorated in a subdued palette of high-temperature greens, yellows, browns, blues, and purples.
This jar and bowl (1983.469.1, .2) come from a pottery, so far unidentified by name, that seems to have obtained important orders over a fairly long period in the late sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The characteristics of the factory are well exemplified in these objects: a fine bianco; a very beautiful blue—skillfully modulated from light to deep shades—that predominated in the early and mid-16oos; and an energetic freedom in the use of the brush point to draw in figures and background vegetation. In the latter part of the seventeenth century the prevailing to
This jar and bowl (1983.469.1, .2) come from a pottery, so far unidentified by name, that seems to have obtained important orders over a fairly long period in the late sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The characteristics of the factory are well exemplified in these objects: a fine bianco; a very beautiful blue—skillfully modulated from light to deep shades—that predominated in the early and mid-16oos; and an energetic freedom in the use of the brush point to draw in figures and background vegetation. In the latter part of the seventeenth century the prevailing to
Artwork Details
- Title: Jar
- Date: ca. 1625–50
- Culture: Spanish, Talavera de la Reina
- Medium: Tin-glazed earthenware
- Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 22 3/8 × 18 3/8 × 16 1/2 in. (56.8 × 46.7 × 41.9 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics-Pottery
- Credit Line: Purchase, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 1983
- Object Number: 1983.469.2
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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