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Ceramic tradition of Manises

Manises, L'Horta Sud, Valencia

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Ceramic tradition of Manises

Curiosity · Manises, L'Horta Sud, Valencia

Image of Manises, not of the place itself.

The ceramic tradition of Manises began after the Christian conquest of Valencia by James I; after the town passed into the hands of Pere Boïl in 1304, its potters began producing gilded Gothic-Mudejar lustreware, with blue decoration and metallic lustre, in the first quarter of the 14th century. This ceramic conquered European markets until the end of the 16th century, travelling from the port of Valencia packed in large jars wrapped in rope and straw as far as Naples, the Vatican, Flanders and the Baltic; it even appears depicted in the Portinari Triptych by Hugo van der Goes. In the 18th century the Real Fábrica de Alcora introduced vivid polychromy and intense blues. By 1941 the sector employed around five thousand workers in eighty factories.

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