Type Name:

PANAMA PLAIN

Category:

MAJOLICA

Production Origin:

PANAMA

Production Date Range:

1575-1650

Defining Attributes:

Hard, compact brick-red paste with sand tempering.

Thick tin-enamel that is off-white to greenish-white in color

Crazing, pinholing, and bare spots in enamel are common

Vessel Forms:

BOWL
PLATE

Comments:

Believed to have originated during the sixteenth century.

Published Definitions:

Deagan 1987:92; Long 1967; Goggin 1968; Rovira 2001