Type Name:

ROMITA PLAIN

Category:

SLIPWARE

Production Origin:

MEXICO

Production Date Range:

1500-1600

Defining Attributes:

Hard, compact orange to reddish-brown paste

Surface is covered with an off-white to greenish-white slip covered in a thin, transparent lead glaze

Vessel Forms:

BASIN
BOWL
PLATE

Comments:

Lister and Lister (1982) classify Romita Plain as an Indigena ware. It is believed that this type is of Native American manufacture, but copying European forms. Lister and Lister feel that this may have been a cheap service ware that held up better than the more fragile majolicas. Romita Plain production may have extended beyond the 16th century.

Published Definitions:

Lister and Lister 1982