Mexican Talavera Pottery

morris posted this on January 30th, 2012

According to Eberlein and McClure (The Practical Book of Early American Arts and Crafts, 1916), the Spanish introduced the production of Talavera style majolica pottery in the 1500s. The city of Puebla, founded in 1531, became the center of production, and the only producers of majolica in the western hemisphere for nearly three centuries...