Artwork
Bowl
DepartmentLatin American Art
CultureSpanish
Date18th century
Dimensionsheight: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
diameter: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
diameter: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Ric Bradford, Houston, Texas
Object number2012.34
GeographyPlace madePuente del Arzobispo, Spain, Europe
DescriptionBowl's interior features a jumping canine, possibly a mastiff, framed by two flowering trees. The outside features more vegetation.Label TextThis majolica bowl is typical of late seventeenth - early eighteenth century glazed earthenware from Puente del Arzobispo, Castile, near the famous ceramic center of Talavera de la Reina. The bowl's interior features a jumping canine, possibly a mastiff, framed by two flowering trees. The outside features more vegetation. The palette of browns, greens, and yellows, with occasional blue on a cream background, was known as monteria and is still used today by ceramists from the region.
Since glazed ceramics were unknown until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century, Spanish majolica greatly influenced the development of glazed pottery in Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, and elsewhere during the colonial period and later.Not on view
Collections
17th century
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