Jar (Jarrón)

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Jar (Jarrón)

Mexico, Puebla de los Ángeles, circa 1700-1750
Furnishings; Accessories
Tin-glazed earthenware
10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.32 cm)
Gift of Ron A. Belkin, Long Beach, California (M.2014.160.1)
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Charles Rodney Sadleir, Cuernavaca, Mexico; Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, November 3, 2003, lot 2516; Ronald A. Belkin, Long Beach, California, 2003; LACMA, 2014.

Label

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Mexican city of Puebla became a production center for fine earthenware and tiles later known as “Talavera poblana.” The earliest Puebla majolica (tin-gl...
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Mexican city of Puebla became a production center for fine earthenware and tiles later known as “Talavera poblana.” The earliest Puebla majolica (tin-glazed earthenware) shows Spanish and Hispano-Islamic influences. However, Puebla is best known for the Chinese-inspired blue-and-white majolica it began producing in the second quarter of the seventeenth century, which remained popular throughout the eighteenth century.
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