| Summary: | "The conceptual framework of this research is the interrelation of art and technique in the tin-enameled earthenware (Majolica) from Puebla; thanks to this, it will be possible to know the material bases that gave rise to specific ornamentation, forms and tastes, some of which survive to this day." (HKB Translation) --Page 17. Based on archival work in Mexico and Seville (Spain), this book documents the fundamentally Seville (Spain) and Genoa (Italy) origins of the tin-enameled earthenware (Majolica) created in Puebla, introducing some of the first potters who arrived in the city of Puebla in the mid-16th century and whose network was extended at least until mid of the 17th century, with the establishment of ordinances of the Puebla potter's guild in 1653. The investigation is composed of three large sections. The first explains why the city of Puebla was suitable for the establishment of that industry; the second details how the expansion of the potter's network occurred, and the third describes the technique, the labor process and the machines, tools and ovens of the pottery, as well as the production of these workshops. At the end the analysis of materials is attached with the PIXE method, carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Physics of the UNAM, which details the technical characteristics of two collections of archaeological sherds: INAH and Talavera Santa Catalina. As a whole, the work offers an interdisciplinary reading about the history of the talavera pottery, a technique that has had a Denomination of Origin since 1994 and which continues to be an element of regional identity.
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