Description

Fabric: Morisco paste of light cream or yellow with few visible inclusions.

Glaze: Rough white tin glaze; decorated in blue with concentric bands encircling interior of vessel; some may have central medallions.

Form: flat-based straight walled bowl with straight flaring sides, tall cylindrical footed jar, chamber pot, escudillas (small carinated bowl) or saucer-like platos (small dish).

Like Santo Domingo Blue on White, Yayal Blue on White (or azul lineal) is a Morisco tin-glazed earthenware made in Seville. It was named after a site in Cuba where it was first identified. Yayal Blue on White was regularly traded to the Americas where it is found into the early 17th century but appears most commonly c. 1550-75. There is scattered distribution of the ware along the southern coast of England and the Low Countries. It was found on the 1622 Spanish shipwreck Atocha.

Sources
Deagan, Kathleen (1987) Artifacts of the Spanish Colonies of Florida and the Caribbean, 1500-1800, Volume I. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Hurst, John "Post-medieval Pottery From Seville Imported into North-West Europe," in Duncan R. Hook and David R.M. Gaimster (ed.s) Trade and Discovery: The Scientfic Study of Artefacts from Post-medieval Europe and Beyond. British Museum Occasional Paper 109.

Marken, Mitchell W. (1994) Pottery from Spanish Shipwrecks 1500-1800. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Sites
Jamestown, National Park Service Collections

Prepared by Bly Straube