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Santo Domingo Blue on WhiteDescription
Fabric: Creamy white or yellow paste with fine mineral
tempering, consistent with the other Morisco wares.
Glaze: Thin light gray tin glaze, which is subject to wear, crazing, pinholing, and other irregularities (Deagan 1987:56). Vessels are decorated with cobalt blue decoration usually consisting of stylized foliate decoration painted in crude slashing brush strokes. The handles of pitchers are always painted with a series of dashes (Goggin 1968:132). Form: The forms are distinguished by their large and crude shapes and consist primarily of rolled rim bowls ranging from 8" to 13" in diameter, cups, jars, and pitchers. Heavy throwing rings are visible on the body while the necks and bases are usually smoothed. DiscussionSanto Domingo Blue on White is a type of Morisco ware, simple coarse tin-glazed wares made by Christianized Muslims of Arabic-Berber descent living in Seville. It acquired its name from the area of the Caribbean in which it was first systematically studied, but Spanish researchers have proposed a Castillian descriptor, azul figurativa, which would reflect its association with Seville (Pleguezuelo and Laafuente). While no examples have been recognized in England (Hurst 1995:51), the ware is found throughout the Spanish Caribbean colonies ca. 1550-1630 (Deagan: 61). The ware has been found on two Spanish shipwrecks: the San Antonio, wrecked near Bermuda in 1621, and the Atocha, a 1622 shipwreck off the coast of Florida.Sources
Deagan, Kathleen (1987) Artifacts of
the Spanish Colonies of Florida and the Caribbean,
1500-1800, Volume I. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Institution Press.
Goggin, John M. (1968) Spanish Majolica in the New World: Types of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Vol. 72. Hurst, John (1995) "Post-Medieval Pottery from Seville Imported into North-West Europe," in Duncan R. Hook and David R.M. Gaimster (ed.s) Trade and Discovery: The Scientfic Study of Artefacts from Post-medieval Europe and Beyond. British Museum Occasional Paper 109. Marken, Mitchell W. (1994) Pottery from Spanish Shipwrecks 1500-1800. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Pleguezuerlo, Alfonso and M. Pilar LaFuente (1995) "Ceramicas de Andalucia occidental (1200-1600)", in Christopher M. Gerrard et al. (eds.) Spanish Medieval Ceramics in Spain and the British Isles. BAR International Series 610. Oxford, England, 217-244. Sites Jamestown, National Park Service Collections. Prepared by Bly Straube |
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