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Initially Mexican tin-glazed ceramics were strongly influenced by Spanish maiolica pottery.\r\nIn 1565 Spain established a new trade from China to compete with Portuguese merchants. Cargoes of Chinese porcelain were shipped across the Pacific Ocean to Mexico, where they were carried overland via Puebla before being shipped on to Spain. These Chinese exports strongly influenced local potters, who combined Chinese blue-and-white decorative schemes with local motifs.\nThe central decoration of the crowned double-headed eagle probably refers to the Habsburg dynasty who ruled Spain until 1700, but the eagle also had a strong local significance in Mexico dating back from Aztec times.\n","physicalDescription":"Large deep basin in tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration in blue. On the rim and inside wall of the basin are painted compartements in Chinese stylke with floral motifs. In the centre a crowned, double-headed eagle.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"earthenware","id":"x29356"},{"text":"tin glaze","id":"AAT233436"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Tin-glazed erthenware","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2010DF5548"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"7","id":"THES263054"},"free":"","case":"CA5","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Basin","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Puebla","id":"x41090"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1650-1700","earliest":"1650-01-01","latest":"1700-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by A. 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Maudslay","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Width","value":"550","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"12.09.12","earliest":"2012-09-12","latest":"2012-09-12"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"588","unit":"mm","qualifier":"max","date":{"text":"12.09.12","earliest":"2012-09-12","latest":"2012-09-12"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"170","unit":"mm","qualifier":"max","date":{"text":"12.09.12","earliest":"2012-09-12","latest":"2012-09-12"},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"These basins seem to be a standard product in Spanish and Mexican pottery.\r\nAnthony Ray (p. 242) quotes a list of prices in the region (Manises) dated November 1685, in which 'basins' are among the small number of standard wares.\n\nAn example in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (inv. 12.3.1), attributed to Puebla ca. 1650, is inscribed around outer rim: 'Soy para labar los puryfycadores y nomas' ('I am for washing the purificators and no more'). This is a clear indication that this type of vessel was also used in an ecclesiastical context, specifically in this case to wash the fine white linen cloth used at the Eucharist for wiping the chalice and paten, and the fingers and lips of the celebrant. The person who ordered it, however, found it necessary to add a warning '... and no more' to prevent the same vessel from being used for more general purposes.\r\n\r\nThere is another Puebla basin at the V&amp;A (C.66-1947: D. 46 cm H. 17 cm) which has a male, possibly Chinese, figure looking through a telescope. \r\n\r\nIn the collection of the V&amp;A are also two early 18th-century Spanish (Valencia) examples: 2-1907: (D. 47 cm H. 16.5 cm); 348-1893: (D. 48 cm H. 17.7 cm).  All seem to be of more or less similar size with diameters between 47 and 55 cm and heights of about 17 cm.\r\n\r\n\n","briefDescription":"Basin, made in  Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico, 1650-1700, tin-glazed earthenware","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Cavin, R.F.; D. Pierce; A. Pleguezuelo (eds.), Ceramica y Cultura: The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayolica, Albuquerque 2003, p. 235, fig. 10.2, shows a puebla basin in the Metropolitan Museum with inscription referring to its use as a wash basin."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Heredia Moreno, María del Carmen. Origen y difusión de la iconografía del águila bicéfala en la platería religiosa española e hispanoamericana. <u>Archivo Español de Arte</u>. April - June 1996, vol. 69, no. 274. pp. 183-94"}],"production":"The central decoration of the crowned double-headed eagle probably refers to the Habsburg dynasty who ruled Spain until 1700. As this basin is a very large and ambitious piece it is likely that it was a special commission for an impotant client. It is therefore unlikely that it would have been made after the end of the Habsburg's rule in 1700 when this emplem lost its political and social importance in Spain and its colonies.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Basin\r\n1650–1700\n\nAsian and European design elements are combined on this basin. The potter’s use of blue on a white glaze echoes Chinese porcelains, as do the chrysanthemum-style flowers and cloud-like scrolls around the sides. The double-headed eagle, probably copied originally from imported European books, is the device of the Habsburg family, which ruled colonial Mexico until 1700.\n\nMexico (Puebla)\r\n\nTin-glazed earthenware, painted\n\r\nBequeathed by A.P. Maudslay","date":{"text":"09.12.2015","earliest":"2015-12-09","latest":"2015-12-09"}},{"text":"Bowl\nMade in  Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico 17th century\nTin-glazed erthenware\n\nC.32-1931 A P.Maudslay Bequest","date":{"text":"16/07/2008","earliest":"2008-07-16","latest":"2008-07-16"}}],"partNumbers":["C.32-1931"],"accessionNumberNum":"32","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1931,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LM9834","2019LR1188","2019LP8375","2019LU9633","2019LU3281","2019LV3200","2019LW1776"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-11-25","recordCreationDate":"2008-07-16","availableToBook":false}}