Type Name:

SLIPWARE, POLYCHROME SGRAFFITO

Category:

SLIPWARE

Production Origin:

SPAIN?

Production Date Range:

1400-1600?

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Comments:

This ware is part of a long Islamic and Hispano-Moresque medieval slipware tradition that appears to have lost favor in Spain after the reconquista. In the Americas it has been reported only from the site of La Isabela (1493-1498).

Published Definitions:

Deagan and Cruxent 2002b:159