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Form and Function Back to New Spain Click any item to see an enlargement |
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 Soup plates Back left: Spanish Colonial, ca. 1625-1675 Abo, LA 97 Museum excavations, DATE 43161/11 Back right: Payupki Polychrome, ca. 1650-1750 Front left: Gobernador Polychrome , ca. 1625-1775 Front right: Jemez Black-on-white, ca. 1598-1633 |
Because pottery from New Spain was so scarce, Native potters in the Southwest were expected to supply mission priests and acolytes with dishes. The Puebla majolica soup plate found at the Abo mission site is one of the few pieces manufactured in New Spain found in a Pueblo mission site. At the Jemez mission at Giusewa, now Jemez State Monument in New Mexico, and on the Hopi Mesas, soup plates followed Spanish forms but with indigenous designs. After the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the destruction of the missions, Jemez and Hopi stopped making soup plates. The Gobernador Polychrome soup plate is Navajo-made, a 17th-century copy of this once-popular style. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Porcelain plate China, Ch'ing dynasty, ca. 1644-1722 Three Corn Pueblito, LA 1871 Morris excavations, 1915, #413 Courtesy of the University of Colorado Museum, Boulder |
Thrown, glazed, and painted in the Chinese porcelain factory town of Ching-te-chen, northeastern Kiangsi province in the late 17th century, this plate came to the Gobernador via Chinese junk, Manila galleon, mule train, and pack basket. The Spanish trading port of Manila, in the Philippines, sent one vessel to Acapulco, Mexico each year between 1565 and 1815. The Manila galleons brought Chinese silk, perfumes, porcelains, cotton fabrics from India, and precious stones. They returned to Manila filled with Mexican silver and were a favorite target of English and other pirates on both legs of the journey. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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