Tibor (Jar) (1700–50): Artwork and History

Tibor (Jar) (1700–50) is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The museum lists its creator attribution as Ceramist unknown (Spanish or Criollo) Puebla de los Ángeles, Viceroyalty of New Spain (present-day Mexico).

The work and its context

The Art Institute of Chicago describes the work:

Shiny ceramic glazes were introduced to the Americas after the European invasions. In Puebla, founded in 1531 southeast of Mexico City, Spanish colonists began making glazed ceramics, like this one, resembling those from Talavera de la Reina in Spain, resulting in a new style called Talavera Poblana. These new American ceramics also showed influences of Chinese blue-and-white porcelains brought to Mexico by the Manila galleons via the Philippines. The floral designs upon this vessel appear to draw from European textiles. Its pair is in the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City.

Object facts

• Title: Tibor (Jar)
• Date: 1700–50
• Artist attribution: Ceramist unknown (Spanish or Criollo) Puebla de los Ángeles, Viceroyalty of New Spain (present-day Mexico)
• Place of origin: Puebla
• Medium: Earthenware and tin-glaze, with cobalt glaze
• Dimensions: 62.5 × 40.2 × 40.2 cm (24 5/8 × 15 7/8 × 15 7/8 in.)
• Type: Ceramics
• Department: Arts of the Americas
• Reference number: 1923.1443

Collection credit

Gift of Eva Lewis in memory of her husband, Herbert Pickering Lewis

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