Escudilla; Manises; late fifteenth century. Ceramic.

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DECORATIVE ARTS XV-XIX

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Jul 13, 2021

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  Escudilla; Manises; late fifteenth century. Ceramic. Measures: 6 cm (height); 16 x 13 (mouth). The piece has the classic colors used by the Manises factory. This color scheme, introduced by the Islamic potters in medieval Spain together with the metallic luster and the green and manganese style, appears in Paterna at the end of the Middle Ages, and will be the most characteristic throughout Europe until the first half of the 18th century, when the secret of porcelain is discovered. The blue and white decoration arose in an attempt to imitate Chinese porcelain, which the Arabs were familiar with and used to make. Paterna was, together with Manises, the great center of Hispanic ceramics of Islamic influence, so it is not unusual for this new style to have its beginnings here. The blue glaze used by the Chinese is cobalt, a high temperature glaze, so it is always applied under the glaze. In Islamic and Hispano-Muslim ceramics it will be called "alsafra", a word derived from the Arabic word for cobalt. In the last quarter of the 14th century it began to be used in Paterna, and little by little it will replace in these potteries the series decorated with the green and manganese style. From this moment on, the source of inspiration will no longer be Muslim ceramics, but Chinese porcelain, with three firings: one for the paste, another for the white engobe and, finally, the third for the glaze, the colors and the glaze. The decoration, on the other hand, becomes more abstract, and in the case of pieces with figurative decoration this will have only half-body figures, with less defined backgrounds and a lesser spatial sense. They will be objects decorated with very linear lines.
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