Saturday, August 31, 2019

Pottery Vessels in Sixteenth Century Spain



John E. Worth
© UWF Division of Anthropology and Archaeology

As noted in a previous blog post (Dining at the Luna Settlement), the inhabitants of the Luna Settlement made extensive use of pottery for a variety of functions and tasks, ranging from storage and transport to cooking and serving food.  The archaeological record of the site is dominated by fragments of broken pottery, including more than 15 kilograms amounting to nearly 2,800 sherds excavated and analyzed as of the start of the 2019 field school (Worth 2019).  While the assemblage of imported ceramics at the Luna Settlement also includes small percentages of Aztec tradition pottery (just over 4% by count and 2% by weight), the vast majority comprises Spanish tradition pottery vessels, including unglazed, lead-glazed, and tin-enameled types.

Archaeologists normally classify ceramics using typologies that work best for what we call “potsherds” or simply “sherds,” which are simply the fragments (a.k.a. shards) of broken vessels.  For this reason, archaeological ceramic types rely primarily on the paste (incorporating clay, aplastic inclusions, commonly called temper, manufacturing technique, firing temperature, etc.) and the surface treatment (e.g. plain, slipped, painted, incised, punctated, stamped, glazed, etc.) of each sherd, both of which can normally be evaluated without having whole vessels.  In this context, 16th-century Spanish ceramics at the Luna Settlement can be classified into several basic categories.  A minority of the assemblage (9% by count and 5% by weight) is comprised of various named types of tin-enameled majolica (Columbia Plain, Columbia Plain Green Variant, Santo Domingo Blue on White, Yayal Blue on White, Santa Elena Mottled, Caparra Blue, and Isabela Polychrome) along with many other sherds that are too small to classify confidently beyond generic blue on white, polychrome, and plain categories.  A substantial part of the assemblage (43% by count and 68% by weight) is Spanish olive jar (both lead glazed and unglazed), and the rest comprises other coarse earthenwares (48% by count and 27% by weight), including named types such as Melado, Green Bacín, and Orange Micaceous, and a variety of generic redwares and other coarse earthenwares with or without lead glazes that range from transparent to green in color.  All these archaeological classifications fall nicely within the 16th-century date range of the Luna expedition, and this terrestrial assemblage corresponds extremely well with the assemblages documented on the three Emanuel Point shipwrecks not far offshore.

Apart from their obvious usefulness in establishing the age and cultural affiliation of the sites where they are found, archaeological ceramics can also provide important insights into the range of activities potentially carried out using them, particularly when they are examined from a functional standpoint.  In this way, pottery can be used as a proxy for the kinds of routine activities and practices that took place at a site, which can then be used as an avenue to understand many other cultural phenomena such as subsistence, social organization, cultural identity, and many others.  One important aspect of determining how ceramics were used at any given archaeological site is to develop an understanding of the range of pottery vessel shapes and sizes in use at the site, including which vessels were present, and in what relative proportions with respect to the rest of the vessel assemblage.  There are of course many other sources of direct and indirect evidence for the actual uses to which pottery was put at a given archaeological site, including physical traces of such use preserved on individual potsherds, but vessel form studies at least provide a broad framework within which other evidence can be analyzed.  And while the direct identification and quantification of vessel forms at an archaeological site is of course very challenging when most of the vessels have been shattered into small sherds, independent studies of whole or nearly whole vessels from the same culture and time period can be extremely useful for interpreting more fragmentary finds. 

For the Spanish colonial era in general, and the 16th century specifically, researchers are also fortunate to have documentary evidence that can reveal the types and relative frequency of specific named pottery vessel types present in a variety of contexts, such as personal probate inventories, warehouse lists, merchandise receipts, and shipping manifests.  Moreover, comprehensive dictionaries of the Spanish language from the 18th century and later also provide sometimes detailed descriptions of vessel types that in many cases were in use for centuries before and after the 16th century, sometimes right up to the present day (Real Academia Española 1726-1737).  Such data can be invaluable for identifying named vessel forms with well-documented functions, and for establishing important correspondences between the documentary and archaeological record.

There have been many archaeologically-focused studies of Spanish tradition ceramics during the colonial era and earlier.  These include a number of English-language studies and compilations that are important sources for Spanish colonial archaeologists (e.g. Goggin 1960, 1968; Lister and Lister 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1987; Boone 1984; Deagan 1987; Skowronek et al. 1988; Marken 1994; Avery 1997).  Many of these tend to give greater emphasis to Spanish majolica and olive jar, particularly with regard to their more well-defined and limited range of vessel forms, especially in comparison to the wider range of less easily defined vessel forms evident among other coarse earthenwares.  However, these publications are fortunately supplemented by other Spanish-language studies that make use of a range of archaeological and historical data to create and refine somewhat more comprehensive ceramic vessel typologies.  These include several studies that have drawn upon substantial collections of whole or nearly whole vessels recovered from architectural fill inside historic structures in the Spanish cities of Seville, Triana, and others, also including privy deposits (Amores Carredano and Chisvert Jiménez 1993; Pleguezuelo-Hernández 1993; Sánchez Cortegana 1994, 1998; Pleguezuelo et al. 1997, 1999; Romero Vidal 2012; Ceniceros Herreros 2012; Cruz Sánchez 2014; López Torres 2018).  Many of these publications include scale drawings of a diverse range of complete and partial vessel profiles, accompanied by text descriptions of vessel types and their classification and functions, providing an important addition to the more sherd-focused English-language literature (but see Ness 2015 for more recent vessel form typology for the Spanish colonial era).

It is primarily the latter set of well-illustrated Spanish-language vessel typologies that I have drawn upon to create the selection of generic 16th-century vessel profile images that follows below, along with descriptive tables of major vessel types that includes shape, size ranges (based in some cases on a very small number of examples), surface treatments, and general uses.  These example images and descriptions should not be considered comprehensive or definitive, since all of these forms have a range of variation beyond the selected examples portrayed here, and since this is a preliminary overview of ongoing studies.  However, these summary descriptions are presented here as part of a broader and ongoing effort to understand the nature of the Spanish ceramic assemblage at the Luna Settlement, and what it can tell us about daily life at the site during its two-year occupation between 1559 and 1561.

Tableware – Dining

Individual tableware for 16th-century Spanish dining included the ubiquitous plato and escudilla vessel forms, equivalent to the plate (more properly a “soup plate”) and bowl, used to eat solid, semi-solid, and liquid foods at the table.  Ceramic drinking ware included individual jarrita and jarrito forms (distinguished by the number of handles), as well as the taza, or cup, and sometimes the cuenco, or drinking bowl.  It should be noted here, however, that 16th-century documents also frequently record the use of wooden plates, bowls, and cups instead of, or in addition to, their ceramic equivalents for both maritime and terrestrial military use, and other more expensive materials were also used for the same vessel types, including tin plate, pewter, and even silver.

16th-Century Spanish Tableware - Dining

Plato

Form: Wide soup-plate with concave or ring base, gently rounded lower section, and outflaring slightly sloping upper section.
Dimensions: 18-24 cm orifice diameter; 3-6 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Tin enameled (interior and exterior).
Uses: Used for serving and consuming solid or partially liquid food at the table.

Escudilla

Form: Small bowl with rounded interior and a sharp or rounded profile break on the exterior, forming a vertical or nearly vertical upper section and a sloping or rounded lower section, and either a concave or slightly flaring ring base.  Includes a porringer version with two opposing orejas/orejetas, or lug handles.
Dimensions: 9-20 cm orifice diameter; 4-8 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Tin enameled or lead glazed (interior and exterior).
Uses: Used in consuming or measuring liquid foods.

Jarrita

Form: Small version of the jarra with two or more vertical handles.
Dimensions: 7-10 cm orifice diameter; 8-10 cm belly width (if present); 15-20 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Lead glazed (green) or unglazed.
Uses: Used as individual drinking containers.

Jarrito

Form: Small version of the jarro with one vertical handle.
Dimensions: 6-8 cm orifice diameter; 9-11 cm belly width; 13-18 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Lead glazed (interior and almost all of exterior) or tin enameled.
Uses: Used as individual drinking containers.

Taza (large form called Tazón)

Form: Cup with a flat, slightly outflaring narrow base, wide belly, and slightly outflaring rim, typically with a single handle, but can have two opposing handles (especially with the tazón form).
Dimensions: 8-10 cm orifice diameter; 7-12 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Lead glazed (interior and exterior partial or complete) or tin enameled.
Uses: Used as individual drinking containers.

Cuenco

Form: Hemispherical cup or small bowl, without handles.
Dimensions: comparable to escudilla.
Surface Treatment: Lead glazed (interior and exterior partial or complete) or tin enameled.
Uses: Used as individual drinking containers, or in consuming or measuring liquid foods.

Tableware - Serving

Pottery vessels used for serving food at the table included a range of containers for liquids such as wine or water in various sizes, including the larger cantaro/cantara forms and the smaller jarro/jarra forms, commonly taking the form of pitchers.  These vessels were also commonly used as measures, containing specific amounts equivalent to rations of wine, for example.  Such vessels were also made of other materials, including brass and tin plate.  Table service also included large serving bowls called fuentes, as well as platters simply called platos grandes.  Small one-handled ceramic bottles with narrow necks called alcuzas were used to dispense olive oil.

16th-Century Spanish Tableware - Serving

Cántara

Form: Large, flat-bottomed jar with two or more vertical handles.
Generally more pot-bellied than a jarra, and with a shorter neck.
Dimensions: Multiple sizes, including 1.0 and 0.5 arrobas, and larger.
13-15 cm orifice diameter; 25-27 cm belly width; [33-44 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Unglazed.
Uses: Used for liquid storage, transport, and dispensing. 

Cántaro

Form: Large, flat-bottomed jar with one vertical handle. 
Generally more pot-bellied than a jarro, and with a shorter neck.
Dimensions: Multiple sizes, including 1.0 and 0.5 arrobas, and larger; 8-13 cm orifice diameter;
22-32 cm belly width; 32-48 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Unglazed.
Uses: Used for liquid storage, transport, and dispensing. 

Jarra

Form: Medium flat-bottomed jar with two or more vertical handles.
Generally less pot-bellied than a cántara, and with a longer neck.
Dimensions: 8-10 cm orifice diameter; 18-20 cm belly diameter; 25-32? cm height
Surface Treatment: Unglazed.
Uses: Used for dispensing water or wine at the table. 

Jarro

Form: Medium flat-bottomed jar with one vertical handle.  Generally less pot-bellied than a cántaro, and with a longer neck. 
Dimensions: 8-15 cm orifice diameter; 14-27 belly diameter; 20-35 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Lead glazed (interior and partial exterior) or unglazed.
Uses: Used for dispensing water or wine at the table. 

Fuente

Form: Large, open serving bowl generally with straight or slightly curved outflaring lower portion and sometimes a vertical or slightly outflaring upper collar, and slightly outflaring concave ring base.
Dimensions: 25-33 cm orifice diameter; 10-12 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Lead glazed or unglazed.
Uses: Used for presentng and serving food at the table.

Alcuza (a.k.a. Redoma, though term usually reserved for glass form)

Form: Small bottle with wide belly, narrow neck, flaring ring base, and one vertical handle.
Dimensions: 5-6 cm orifice diameter; 11-17 cm belly diameter; 18-28 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Lead glazed.
Uses: Used for serving olive oil at the table or during cooking.

Cookware – Food Preparation

While 16th-century Spanish cooking employed a wide range of containers of different materials, including from cast iron skillets (sartenes), copper kettles and cauldrons (calderas, calderos), wooden mixing bowls, etc., pottery played a very important role in food preparation.  Liquid foods such as porridges, stews, gruels, etc. were cooked over coals in earthenware pots (ollas) of various sizes, while shallower, more open vessels called cazuelas (similar to casserole dishes) were also used over coals or in ovens for a range of foods, and could have ceramic lids on which coals could also be placed for baking without an oven.  The ceramic brasero (later also known as anafe/anafre) was commonly used as a miniature stove to contain hot coals over which ollas and cazuelas would be placed for cooking.  Earlier stages in food preparation, such as soaking salted meats, preparing dough, marinating, etc., could be carried out using large ceramic basins called lebrillos, though these vessels could also have been used for washing dishes or clothes, personal hygiene, etc. (e.g. Amores Carredano and Chisvert Jiménez 1993:288).  And while grinding spices, herbs, and other foods was commonly carried out with brass or bronze mortar and pestles, ceramic morteros were also used, glazed or unglazed, presumably with wooden pestles.

16th-Century Spanish Cookware

Cazuela

Form: Wide, shallow pan with gently rounded or flattened base, with or without horizontal handles.
Dimensions: 14-31 cm orifice diameter; 6-8 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Lead glazed (interior and partial exterior).
Uses: Used over fire for frying and sautéing foods.

Olla (a.k.a. Puchero, when small)

Form: Globular pot with flat or slightly convex base, wide belly, slightly restricted neck and outflaring rim, and normally two vertical handles (though can be one or four handles).
Dimensions: Wide range of sizes; 12-28 cm orifice diameter; 15-45 cm belly width; 17-39 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Lead glazed (interior and partial exterior)
Uses: Used over fire for cooking liquids such as porridges, stews, soups, etc.

Brasero (a.k.a. Anafe/Anafre)

Form: Flat-based brazier with an insloping straight-walled lower portion and a rounded open upper portion and an incurved lip.
Dimensions: 24-38 cm orifice diameter; 47 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Unglazed.
Uses: Portable stove/heater for hot coals.

Lebrillo

Form: Wide, flat-based containers with straight, outsloping walls and a thick overhanging border, normally with cord/rope impressions. 
Dimensions: Generally large, but including a range of sizes; 35-80 cm orifice diameter; 10-18 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Lead glazed (interior and exterior just over the lip).
Uses: Used for a range of household functions including soaking meats, cleaning clothes, personal hygiene, etc.

Mortero

Form: Thick-walled, flat-bottomed vessels with rounded interior and thickened and slightly incurved rim.
Dimensions: 18-20 cm orifice diameter; 13-18 cm height.
Surface Treatment: Unglazed or glazed (green exterior, white interior).
Uses: Used for grinding spices, herbs, etc.

Storage Ware

Pottery has always been commonly used for storage of liquids and solids, and the range of storage ware in 16th-century Spain included flat-bottomed and round-bottomed vessels of diverse sizes and shapes.  The largest storage vessels were tinajas, with wide mouths and flat bases, and which could be used to store many different materials, both liquid and solid.  Large, wide-mouthed ceramic tubs called tinas were also used for catching rainwater or other liquid storage.  Smaller storage vessels included the orza, basically a smaller version of the tinaja, as well as the tarro (more recently also known as albarelo), both of which were used to store preserves, spices, drugs, etc.  Several varieties of narrow-necked, round-bottomed jars were more commonly used for storage during transport, including the ubiquitous botija, known by archaeologists as olive jars, which was a standard shipboard transport container for wine, vinegar, olive oil, and water, and the handled cantimplora form, which was well-suited for the transport of liquids by horse or mule. 

It should be noted that several detailed typologies have been developed for the “olive jar” based on overall vessel shape and neck configuration (e.g. Goggin 1960; Amores Carredano and Chisvert Jiménez 1993; Marken 1994; Avery 1997), but unfortunately the classification most frequently used in common parlance is still Goggin’s original (1960) classification into Early (c1500-1580), Middle (c1580-1800), and Late (after c1800) styles, which conflates two completely different vessel forms for the 16th century part of the chronology.  As has been noted by several of the subsequent authors above, Goggin’s “Early Style” olive jar is actually the two-handled cantimplora vessel form constructed in two lateral halves, while his “Middle Style” and “Late Style” olive jars are true botijas, which lacked handles.  Moreover, the botija form was used throughout the 16th century and into the late 15th century in Spain (Pleguezuelo et al. 1999:271), and was actually contemporaneous with the cantimplora form.  The Luna Settlement and Emanuel Point shipwrecks have produced fragments of both vessel forms, illustrating the fact that Goggin’s “Middle Style” olive jar (the botija) and his “Early Style” olive jar (the cantimplora) were distinct and both in use at the same time.

16th-Century Spanish Storage Ware

Botija (a.k.a. the Olive Jar)

Form: Round-bottomed globular jar with a narrow neck and outflaring, slightly to substantially thickened rim.
Dimensions: Two sizes: 1-1.25 arrobas (6-10 cm orifice diameter; 24-37 cm width; 43-61 cm height), and 0.5 arrobas (7-8 cm orifice diameter; 22-26 cm width; 25-33 cm height).
Surface Treatment: Unglazed or lead glazed (interior); half-arroba size normally used for olive oil and glazed to avoid spoilage, with full-arroba size commonly used for wine, vinegar, and water and unglazed, though frequently coated with pez, or resin, on the interior.
Uses: Used for liquid (mostly) transport.

Cantimplora (sometimes also known as Barril; equivalent to Goggin’s “Early Style” Olive Jar)

Form: Circular, biconvex jar with expanded, flattened, or slightly dimpled sides, a projecting narrow neck with flaring, straight, or constricted rim, and two elongated loop handles.
Dimensions: 4-13 cm orifice diameter; 16-34 cm body diameter; 12-38 cm belly width; 19-42 cm height
Surface Treatment: Unglazed and occasionally glazed (interior and partial exterior).
Uses: Used for liquid transport and dispensing. 

Orza

Form: Tall, rounded, flat-based jar with slightly restricted neck and sometimes slightly outflaring lip.
Dimensions: Wide range of sizes; 10-22 cm orifice diameter; 17-42 cm belly width; 21-47 cm height
Surface Treatment: Glazed or unglazed.
Uses: Used for storing a range of goods including preserves and drugs.

Tarro (a.k.a. Albarelo)

Form: Tall, cylindrical, waisted, flat-bottomed jar with a stepped shoulder below the slightly narrowed mouth (sometimes slightly outflaring).
Dimensions: 8-9 cm orifice diameter; 9-11 cm body width; 17-22 cm height
Surface Treatment: Lead glazed (interior and exterior or partial exterior) or tin enameled.
Uses: Used for storing drugs, preserves, spices, etc.

Tina

Form: Very large, flat-based, open tub with rounded walls and thickened or outflaring/overhanging lip, sometimes with a decorative pinched strip on the shoulder.
Dimensions: 48-78 cm orifice diameter; 23-50 cm height
Surface Treatment: Unglazed.
Uses: Used for catching rainwater and holding liquids.

Tinaja

Form: Very large, tall, rounded, flat-based jar with slightly restricted neck and thickened or slightly outflaring/overhanging lip.
Dimensions: 20-32 cm orifice diameter; 38-52 cm belly width; 42-57 cm height
Surface Treatment: Unglazed.
Uses: Used for storage of liquid and solid materials.

Hygiene

Apart from multi-use pottery vessels that were likely employed in personal washing, such as the lebrillo form above, the bacín form was used as a recipient for bodily waste (a chamber pot).  Despite the use of the name, however, the archaeological ceramic type known as Green Bacín is generally characteristic of the large lebrillo form in Spanish assemblages, and not the bacín form, which normally has a honey-colored lead glaze (Amores Carredano and Chisvert Jiménez 1993:288-289).

16th-Century Spanish Bacín

Bacín

Form: Medium flat-bottomed container with straight (or slightly waisted) vertical or slightly outsloping (and sometimes insloping) walls and an overhanging rim, usually with two handles.
Dimensions: 21-32 exterior lip orifice diameter; 19-29 cm height
Surface Treatment: Lead glazed (interior and partial exterior) and tin enameled.
Uses: Recipient for bodily waste.

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