Oaxaca Polychrome | The Pan-American Ceramics Project

Type: Oaxaca Polychrome

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Name, Origin, Date

Name:

Oaxaca Polychrome

Country/Region:

Mexico/Southern Mexico...

Date BCE/CE:

1800-1900 CE

Period:

Historic

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General Information

This description of Oaxaca Polychrome comes from the Historical Archaeology Digital Ceramic Type Collection maintained by the Florida Museum of Natural History.

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Detail Attributes

Morphological Attributes

Shape

cup, plate

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Shape Family

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Functional Category

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Technological Attributes

Fabric Description

Fine, hard, compact pa...

Technological Description

Off-white backgroun...

Firing

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Related Illustrations 0

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Vessels 0

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 0

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Description

Fine, hard, compact paste typically orange to salmon in color. Off-white background enamel with orange, green, blue, purple, and yellow decorations. Decorative motif consists of elongate lobe elements, groups if vertical lines and random splotches, often overlapping each other. Occasional banding on rims is also present.

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Associated Wares/Ware Families

Ware name:

Majolica

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Associated Petrofabrics

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Associated Kilns/Workshops

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Bibliography

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
Donna Seifert. " Archaeological majolicas of the rural Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico", Ph. D., University of Iowa, 1977
Charlie Cobb and Gifford Waters. Historical Archaeology Digital Ceramic Type Collection, 2023. February 23, 2023. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/histarch/ceramic-types/

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