Albarelo - pharmacy bottle; Talavera, 1759-1788.

Albarelo- pharmacy jar; Talavera, 1759-1788.
Ceramics. Heraldic series.
With royal coat of arms of Charles III.
Presents hair on the lip.
Measurements: 21,5 x 10 cm.
This albarelo has the characteristics of the highest quality pharmacy ceramics, made in Talavera de la Reina at the beginning of the 18th century. The attribution to Talavera and its dating is based on its shape, quality and the iconography of the heraldic motif.
Talavera de la Reina ceramics 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.