Excerpt from Mexican Maiolica: In the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America The earliest inspiration for the Mexican maiolists was the blue and white ware of Talavera de la Reyna, Spain, which began to appear in Mexico late in the sixteenth century. The Spanish influence is strongly marked in those pieces in which saints, heads of cherubs, horses and chariots, figures of squirrels. Boars. Bulls and hares appear among the decorative details, and in many of the forms of vessels, such as the urn-shaped jardinieres, the albarelli, or apoth ecary jars, and the barrel - shaped flower jars, which were borrowed from the Italians by the Spaniards. In the seventeenth century, potters went to Spain from Italy and introduced certain'styles of modeling and paintingthere. It is probable that some of these artisans went from Genoa or Savona, as we can trace a marked resemblance in some of the Talavera and Toledo wares to those of the two Italian cities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.