DepartmentLatin America

Plate

NameDish

CultureMexican

DateLate 18th century

Place madePuebla, Mexico, North America

MediumTin-glazed earthenware with cobalt in-glaze

Dimensions1 3/4 × 15 3/16 × 15 3/16 in. (4.5 × 38.5 × 38.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Houghton Sawyer Collection, A.1969.45.60

Object numberA.1969.45.60

Collections

Mayolica

DescriptionScalloped, folliated outer rim, no ring foot. Broad outer rim is decorated with horseshoe scrolls embracing a round dot and fleur-de-lis. Central building/structure rests on dark cloud motif surrounded by dot clusters and leaf space-fillers. Even pottery relected the collapse of the Spanish monarchy after 1800.