Panama Blue | The Pan-American Ceramics Project

Type: Panama Blue

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Name, Origin, Date

Name:

Panama Blue

Country/Region:

Panama/

Date BCE/CE:

1600-1650 BC

Period:

Historic (Spanish Colo...

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General Information

Production of Panama Blue may have begun in the late 16th century. It is likely that this type is an imitation of Caparra Blue.

This description of Panama Blue comes from the Historical Archaeology Digital Ceramic Types Collection maintained by the Florida Museum of Natural History.

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Detail Attributes

Morphological Attributes

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Technological Attributes

Fabric Description

Hard, compact brick-re...

Technological Description

Exterior covered wi...

Firing

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Vessels 0

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 0

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Description

Hard, compact brick-red paste with sand tempering. Exterior covered with a matte-finished, solid blue enamel that is occasionally bubbly. Interior covered with a reflective enamel ranging in color from greenish to yellowish.

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Associated Wares/Ware Families

Ware name:

Majolica

Date:

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Bibliography

Long, George A. "Archaeological investigations at Panama la Vieja.", Master of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, 1967
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
Kathleen Deagan. Artifacts of the Spanish Colonies of Florida and the Caribbean, 1500-1800. 1. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1987
Rovira, Beatríz. "Presencia de mayólicas panameñas en el mundo colonial. Algunas consideraciones acerca de su distribución y cronología." Latin American Antiquity 12 (2001), 291-303
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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