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The museum collection comprises from antique pottery: Greek, Iberian and Roman to modernism piece. The first collection donated by founder González Martí, consisted of about 6.000 items, mostly ceramics from the medieval period (including ceramic objects from Manises and Paterna and Hispano-Moresque ware) to popular 19th-century Valencian tiles.
Uriarte is one of the oldest producers of Talavera pottery in Mexico. This is a kind of majolica, named after the city of Talavera de la Reina which had developed in Spain from Arab and Chinese origins and brought to Mexico after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. While majolica was made in a number of places in Mexico, it became highly ...
The Spanish Conquest introduced European traditions of pottery and had severe effects upon native traditions. Some pottery forms survived intact, such as comals, grinders , basic cooking bowls/utensils and censers. This was mostly done in plain orangeware and some were colored red and black.
Factory marks are essential in the area of porcelain production especially, where they are sometimes also called "backstamps", and where their absence would make authentication much more difficult. [10] It is frequently claimed that the first factory mark on the European porcelain, in the shape of crossed swords, appeared on the Meissen pieces ...
The vernacular term "crocks" is often used to describe this type of pottery, [citation needed] though the term "crock" is not seen in period documents describing the ware. Additionally, while other types of stoneware were produced in America concurrently with it—for instance, ironstone , yellowware , and various types of china—in common ...
Talavera de la Reina pottery is a traditional type of faience, or tin-glazed earthenware made in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain. The area has a long history of pottery , and dishes, jars, ceramics and other objects have been found in archaeological excavations, some materials dating to the Roman Empire .
Mata Ortiz pottery is a recreation of the Mogollon pottery found in and around the archeological site of Casas Grandes (Paquimé) in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Named after the modern town of Mata Ortiz , which is near the archeological site, the style was propagated by Juan Quezada Celado .
At least one authority, Alan Caiger-Smith, excludes this pottery from the term "Hispano-Moresque", but most who use the term at all use it to include Malaga and other Andalusian wares from the Islamic period as well as the Valencian pottery. [5] When Spanish medieval pottery was first studied in the 19th century, there was awareness of the ...