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- Title
The black pottery in Portugal: Historical study, ways of making and of using.
- Authors
FERNANDES, Isabel Maria Granja
- Abstract
The base theme of this work is the potters and the potteries of black pottery in Portugal. Nevertheless, one considered it important to contextualize the production of black pottery in the wider group of ceramics in Portugal, mainly of pottery. One went back in time and analyzed the craft of the potter between the 13th and the 18th centuries, verifying that in the 19th and 20th centuries the decadence of this craft starts, as the clay pottery was replaced by other kinds of crockery. One selected the seventy-two places existing in the 19th and 20th centuries where black pottery was produced, both through the bibliography and through the fieldwork conducted in those production places, which brought about the elaboration of, more or less extensive, monographs, depending on the quantity and quality of data one managed to gather. These monographs were central for the structuring of several chapters, such as «Chapter 3: The course of the clay in the potteries: ways of making». One analyzed the antiquity of the production and the designation given to these potters of black pottery, coming to the conclusion that their potteries were family units, where all the members of the family collaborated. One sought to know the quantity of time potters dedicated to the craft, the wage they earned and whether the clay work was complemented with the performance of other professional activities. One examined their degree of literacy and disclosed professional migration flows. One considered it relevant to understand these potters' ways of making, showing the diverse stages of the clay work in the potteries of black pottery in Portugal, from the extraction of the clay to the trading of the pottery, going through the way they worked the clay paste, the way they lifted the pieces in the low wheel or in the lathe, the way they decorated the pottery and the way they fired them. And, since the pieces are made to be used, one sought to know the earthen vessels made by the Portuguese potters between the 17th and 18th centuries, by comparing them with the productions from the 19th and 20th centuries, thus making the shapes and usefulness of these simple earthen vessels known.
- Subjects
BLACK pottery; PORTUGUESE pottery; HISTORY of pottery
- Publication
E-Journal of Portuguese History, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2, p479
- ISSN
1645-6432
- Publication type
Abstract