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LATER WARES OF SPAIN AND

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 741 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPAIN AND  See also:PORTUGAL We shall only See also:deal at length here with those important kinds of pottery that have exerted real See also:influence on the See also:historical development of the See also:art . Offshoots from the See also:main See also:stem that have See also:developed little or no individuality can only be briefly mentioned . When the characteristic See also:Spanish-Moorish lustre wares ceased to be desired by the wealthy they rapidly sank into insignificance, though as a decorative See also:peasant pottery their manufacture never really ceased and has been revived again in our See also:day . The course of pottery importation was changed and the now See also:fashion-able See also:Italian See also:majolica was brought into See also:Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries, as Hispano-Moresque wares had followed the opposite course two centuries earlier . Besides the influence which these imported wares had on the Spanish potters, a number of wandering Italian majolists found their way into Spain, so that we find the use of painted See also:colour, particularly See also:blue, yellow, See also:orange, See also:green and See also:purple, making its See also:appearance at various centres, around See also:Valencia, at Triana near See also:Seville, &c., but the most important manufacture was at Talavera in the centre of the See also:peninsula . The best of this See also:ware recalls the See also:late Italian majolica of See also:Savona, and the influence of See also:Chinese See also:porcelain de-signs, probably filtered through to the Spanish potters by the then popular enamelled See also:Delft wares, is very apparent . The See also:potteries of Talavera are mentioned as See also:early as 156o, and they continued at See also:work, with varying fortunes, down to the end of the 18th See also:century . Many and varied wares were produced, including tiles as well as pottery; the most See also:common pottery pieces are dishes, howls, vases, tinajas, See also:holy-See also:water vessels, See also:drug-pots, and See also:hanging See also:flower vases,together with moulded and painted snails, owls, See also:dogs, oranges, almonds, walnuts, and every See also:kind of See also:fruit . Apart from the poorer colour the See also:baroque See also:style of See also:ornament also rendered the ware much inferior to that of See also:Italy or of See also:France . The popular Talavera wares were imitated else-where in Spain, and a number of factories existed at See also:Toledo in the 17th century, but their wares are very inferior . In the 18th century, besides debased imitations of this ware, some coarse but striking pottery was made at Puente del Arzobispo near Toledo . An interesting offshoot from the Talavera potteries is to be found in the See also:tin-enamelled wares made at See also:Puebla, See also:Mexico, from the early 17th century .

It is said that Spanish potters weresettled at this See also:

place by the See also:Dominicans soon after 1600; and the making of a debased See also:form of Spanish majolica continued there for nearly two centuries . See See also:Barber's "Tin-Enamelled Pottery," Bulletin of the See also:Philadelphia Museum, 1907 . During the 18th century determined efforts were made by See also:King See also:Charles III. and by the famous See also:Count See also:Aranda to improve the Spanish pottery wares, as well as to introduce the manufacture of porcelain . The efforts of the king led to the See also:foundation of the porcelain See also:works at Buen Retiro near See also:Madrid, which will be mentioned later, and considerable success also attended the revival of strong See also:copper lustre, like that of the late Hispano-Moresque wares; but the finest tin-enamelled wares were those made at Alcora in the important factory founded by Count Aranda in 1726, which continued in operation down to the See also:French See also:wars . For his purposes the count brought from Moustiers, then one of the famous French pottery centres (see above), See also:Joseph Olerys, a well-known pot-painter . He went to Alcora as See also:chief See also:draughts-See also:man and designer, having See also:charge of a number of Spanish potters and painters . Olerys introduced the Moustiers style of decoration, and the glaze and See also:body of the Alcora wares of the best See also:period recall the See also:fine quality of Moustiers See also:faience . It is only See also:fair to add that Olerys in his turn learnt the use of various delicate yellow and green See also:colours from the Spaniards, and when he returned to France in 1737, having acquitted himself most honourably, he introduced this new style of delicate polychrome decoration at Moustiers . The mixture of motives and ideas that animated the See also:duke and his potters may be seen by the following See also:list of wares produced about 1750 . Vases of different shapes; small teapots; teapots and covers, Chinese fashion; teapots and covers, Dutch fashion; cruets, Chinese style; entree dishes; See also:salt-cellars, Chinese style; escudillas (See also:bowls) of See also:Constantinople; barquillos (See also:sauce-bowls), Chinese style; cups, plates, and saucers of different kinds with See also:good painted See also:borders in See also:imitation of See also:lace-work, and finally fruit-stands, See also:salad-bowls and dishes, trays and refrigerators . Later in the century the manufacture of porcelain was introduced here, as well as See also:white earthenware made in imitation of the productions of See also:Wedgwood, and the tin-enamelled wares flickered out in Spain as they did elsewhere . The manufacture of a kind of debased majolica was also practised in Portugal from the 16th century down to our own times; but the ware never attained to any distinction and is little known outside that See also:country .

The best-known specimens were made at Rato, near See also:

Lisbon, where a factory was founded in 1767 under the patronage of the See also:court . Mention must be made of the unglazed native pottery of Spain and Portugal, for See also:wine-jars, water-jars and bottles, cooking pots, and other domestic utensils are still made in these countries for See also:ordinary domestic use, in traditional forms and by methods of the most See also:primitive kind . Many of these vessels, especially the tinajas (wine-jars) and water-coolers, are based on See also:ancient, classical or Arab forms, and in every country See also:market-place it is still common to see See also:groups of vessels, in unglazed pottery of fine shape and finish, exposed for See also:sale—a very different See also:state of things from what obtains in France, See also:Germany, and particularly in See also:England, where the primitive methods of the peasant are being imitated by those who ought to know better . From the 16th to the 18th century a See also:special kind of unglazed pottery vessels known as buccaros was extensively made both in Spain and Portugal . The body of the ware is unglazed, whitish, See also:black or red, according to the special kind of See also:clay . The curious point about this ware is that, if we may believe contemporary documents, the vessels were delicately scented, like a ware imported from Mexico; and the soft vessels are said to have been eaten—a See also:custom common enough in certain parts of Central and See also:Southern See also:America . (See M . L . See also:Solon, The See also:Noble Buccaros, 1896.) (W .

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