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JerryM
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Wed Jan 26, 2005
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Asking Price
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Condition
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Pending
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Good
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Description:
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Please study the pics carefully. From my research, this is either a piece of early spanish majolica in very good condition, or a very, very good reproduction. It appears to be old, very old, except there are no chips and no excessive abrassion I can see. There are firing cracks, with the major one at about 6:30 on the rim. It does appear to be tin glazed, with period polychrome decoration. The 4 small redish dots or berries on the sprigs around the bottom appear to be slip and not glossy (maybe an iron red, over-glaze), above the glaze as do the black outlines. Hand painted.
Though I can't be sure, the bottom looks to be marked TALAVERA <some mark> and then ESPANA.
see:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/histarch/gallery/photoout1.asp?id=27
for an early example
Size: About 12" dia. - 2.5 inches ht.
Thank you
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Keywords:
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majolica spanish early talavera
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