Huejotzingo Blue on White | The Pan-American Ceramics Project

Type: Huejotzingo Blue on White

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Name, Origin, Date

Name:

Huejotzingo Blue on White

Country/Region:

Mexico/Central Mexico/...

Date BCE/CE:

1700-1850 CE

Period:

Historic

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General Information

Huejotzingo Blue on White has no decoration other than a single band around the rim. The "wavy-band" decorative motif is thought to dates late than the plain banded motif. Huejotzingo Blue on White is also known as "Hospital Ware".

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Technological Description

plate, pocillo, taz...

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Description

Compact, creamy white to pale peach or buff paste. Glossy white to off-white background enamel. Cobalt blue decoration restricted to a single band around rim. Rim bands can be straight or wavy.

This description of Huejotzingo Blue on White comes from the Historic Archaeology Digital Ceramic Type Collection maintained by the Florida Museum of Natural History.

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Associated Wares/Ware Families

Ware name:

Majolica

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Bibliography

Ronald V. May. "An Evaluation of Mexican Majolicas in Alta California Employing Preliminary Data from the San Diego Presidio" in Mexican Majolica in Northern New Spain, ed(s). Ronald V. May and M. Barnes. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Occasional Papers 2. San Diego: Pacific Coast Archaeological Society, 1972, 25-50
Kathleen Deagan. Artifacts of the Spanish Colonies of Florida and the Caribbean, 1500-1800. 1. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1987
John Goggin. Spanish Majolica in the New World Types of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. Yale University Publications in Anthropology no. 72. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968

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