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Type Name: | LUSTERWARE |
Type Index: | MAJOLICA |
Production Origin: | SPAIN |
Date Range: | 1490-1550 |
Defining Attributes: |
Cream-colored, compact paste with little visible temper. Vessel walls are thin. Decorated and glazed with metallic paints and glaze produced by the addition of copper and silver, producing a reflective, iridescent metallic luster. Background is typically off-white tin enamel to which metallic elements are added. Designs are painted in copper-colored metallic paint. Some examples have blue painted designs combined with copper metallic elements. Vessels often have a clear, lustered glaze. Design elements are intricate combinations of geometric and stylized floral elements, usually covering the vessel interior. |
Vessel Forms: |
BOWL ESCUDILLA PLATE |
Comments: | Lusterware, or Reflejo Metálico, is part of a very long Hispano-Moresque tradition of luxury lusterware ceramics, that continues today in Spain. It is rare in American sites, and most sherds have been recovered from the Dominican Republic. |
Published Definitions: | Goggin 1968:141-142; Deagan 1987; Fairbanks 1973; Lister and Lister 1982 |