Polychromed bowl, probably for collective use, given its dimensions. It was made of red, turned clay, with application of glassy enamel and burned with tripods, according to the signs present inside the bowl. Inside, on the white tin-glaze background, it has written an unidentified caption in black "Prov. a de Cat. as".
A template was used to copy the design in the outer horizontal band. It is decorated with foliage motifs in black, on a central horizontal band with a yellow background. The application of such a base is unusual in talavera, thus it belongs to a period of experimentation with new colors in the base, mixed with the tin glaze.
Enrique A. Cervantes in his book Loza blanca y azulejo de Puebla of 1939, places a platter with a yellow background and a woman outlined in black, with an application similar to the bowl, dating it as of the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. That piece is part of the collection of the José Luis Bello y González Museum, cataloged by Pérez de Salazar within the same time period proposed by Cervantes.
Polychromed bowl, probably for collective use, given its dimensions. It was made of red, turned clay, with application of glassy enamel and burned with tripods, according to the signs present inside the bowl. Inside, on the white tin-glaze background, it has written an unidentified caption in black "Prov. a de Cat. as".
