Tibor (Jar)

1700–50

Ceramist unknown (Spanish or Criollo)
Puebla de los Ángeles, Viceroyalty of New Spain (present-day Mexico)

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.

Status: On View, Gallery 161
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Talavera Poblana (Potter)
Title: Tibor (Jar)
Place: Puebla (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1700–1750
Medium: Tin-glazed earthenware with cobalt glaze
Dimensions: 62.5 × 40.2 × 40.2 cm (24 5/8 × 15 7/8 × 15 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Eva Lewis in memory of her husband, Herbert Pickering Lewis
Reference Number: 1923.1443
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990), pp. 474-475 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 30–31 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Mexican Majolica of the 17th to the 19th Centuries, 1967, no cat.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries, Oct. 10, 1990-Jan. 13, 1991, cat. no. 227; traveled to San Antonio Museum of Art, April 6-Aug. 4, 1991; Los Angeles Museum of Art, Oct. 6-Dec. 29, 1991.
Chicago, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum [National Museum of Mexican Art], Mexicanidad, Dec. 27, 2001–April 27, 2002, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation, Sept. 30, 2006–Apr. 22, 2007, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012, cat. pp. 30–31.

Herbert Pickering Lewis (1876–1922), Mexico City, Mexico, from late 19th–early 20th century [correspondence and research in curatorial object file]; by descent to his widow, Eva Lewis (born Eva Hill, died c. 1964), Mexico City, Mexico, from 1922 [exported from Mexico Oct.–Nov. 1923; received in Chicago Dec. 3, 1923 according to correspondence from Eva Lewis to Robert Harshe, Nov. 4, 1923, and incoming permanent receipt, R1335, Dec. 3, 1923, copies in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1923.

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