Type Name:

SEVILLA BLUE ON WHITE

Category:

MAJOLICA

Production Origin:

SPAIN

Production Date Range:

1530-1650

Defining Attributes:

Creamy yellow or sometimes rosy yellow compact paste.

Thick, white, glossy enamel glaze that often has fine crazing, fine black specks, pinholes or firing marks.

Designs are painted in a light cobalt blue, and are small in scale, detailed and usually carefully executed. Blue paint sometimes has a foamy appearance.

Motifs include floral elements, dots, stripes, short, thick lines and monograms.

Vessels are Italianate-style and ring-footed, with thin, light vessel walls.

Vessel Forms:

BOWL
BRIMMED PLATO

Comments:

This ware has not been reported from New World sites other than Mexico

Published Definitions:

Deagan 1987; Lister and Lister 1982, 1987