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YAYAL BLUE ON WHITE front view
Type Name: YAYAL BLUE ON WHITE
Type Index: MAJOLICA
Production Origin: SPAIN
Date Range: 1490-1625
Defining Attributes:

Light cream to buff paste color, with a soft, chalky, spongy clay texture.

Concentric blue bands encircle the interior of the vessel

Occasionally a crude central medallion design based on a palmette, parallel crisscrossed lines, and inscriptions

Vessel Forms: BACIN
BOWL
ESCUDILLA
JAR
PLATO
Comments: Early examples generally have a lighter color of blue than that on late examples. Although Yayal Blue on White existed during the early seventeenth century it appears to have reached a peak of popularity around 1550.
Published Definitions: Deagan 1987; Fairbanks 1973; Goggin 1968; Lister and Lister 1982

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