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Type Name: SEVILLA BLUE ON WHITE
Type Index: MAJOLICA
Production Origin: SPAIN
Date Range: 1530-1650
Defining Attributes:

Creamy yellow or sometimes rosy yellow compact paste.

Thick, white, glossy enamel glaze that often has fine crazing, fine black specks, pinholes or firing marks.

Designs are painted in a light cobalt blue, and are small in scale, detailed and usually carefully executed. Blue paint sometimes has a foamy appearance.

Motifs include floral elements, dots, stripes, short, thick lines and monograms.

Vessels are Italianate-style and ring-footed, with thin, light vessel walls.

Vessel Forms: BOWL
BRIMMED PLATO
Comments: This ware has not been reported from New World sites other than Mexico
Published Definitions: Deagan 1987; Lister and Lister 1982, 1987

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