Type Name:

MARINE WARE

Category:

MAJOLICA

Production Origin:

UNKNOWN

Production Date Range:

1700-1775

Defining Attributes:

Paste is orange to brownish red-colored with coarse sand temper.

Vessels are covered with a smooth, thick, mint-green enamel, usually undecorated.

Vessel Forms:

BACIN
STORAGE JAR

Comments:

This term has been used in Florida to describe a coarse earthenware covered with a green undecorated tin enamel in utilitarian forms. Examples have been noted in the collections of St. Augustine and Havana. A similar undecorated variety has been noted in the collections from Panama Vieja, possibly made locally during the seventeenth century.

Published Definitions:

Clausen 1970; Deagan 2002:95-96