Saltcellar; Talavera or Puente del Arzobispo; 1640-1665.

Saltcellar; Talavera or Puente del Arzobispo; 1640-1665.
Glazed ceramic. Geometric orange striped series.
Measurements: 15 x 4,5 cm.
Talavera orange striped spice rack, in its geometric version. It has a triangular form with three wells of convex bottom not seen. Serrated vertical edges and marked in relief. Circular hollow at the base.
Talavera de la Reina pottery acquired industrial importance in the 16th century. Mentioned by Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina, Talavera earthenware can also be documented in a large part of Spanish Baroque painting. Used by nobles and the humble, its commercial monopoly was in constant conflict with Sevillian earthenware. One of the architects of the recovery of Spanish Talavera ceramics was Juan Niveiro with the founding of the "El Carmen" factory; the incorporation of workers brought from Manises meant another important change in its decorative series. Changes that would reinforce the tricolor series produced by another emerging pottery in the mid-nineteenth century: "La Menora". The earthenware and tiles produced in Talavera de la Reina (Castilla La Mancha, Spain) throughout its five centuries of recognized ceramic tradition has generated such a rich and varied typology that a classification into series proposed since the end of the 19th century by different specialists has become necessary in order to facilitate their study and cataloguing.