Jug

Unknown

17th century · Tin-glazed earthenware · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The bold, sketchily drawn designs on this jug are typical of Talavera, in Castile, where potters broke with the Hispano-Moresque lusterware tradition to develop a vivacious polychrome pictorial style related to northern Italian wares of the period.

Artist

Unknown

Date

17th century

Medium

Tin-glazed earthenware

Culture

Spanish, Talavera de la Reina

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894