Puebla polychrome

The placement of the Mixteca polychrome sherd from Yagul in the matching group of Table IV is of special interest. To the best of our knowledge this is the first piece of technical evidence that at least some of the famous Mixteca-Puebla polychrome was produced in the Valley of Oaxaca, confirming Bernals view (24). 

The later 17th-century types (Aucilla, Mt. Royal, and Puebla Polychrome) from Santa Catalina de Guale all group with the Puebla composition. Goggin attributed Aucilla to an unknown Mexican source and Mt. Royal Polychrome to an unknown Spanish production center. There is no evidence to date for sherds of the Mt. Royal Polychrome type having been produced in Spain, and we propose that both types are from a Puebla production. 

Puebla Polychrome, Metro Excavations, Mexico City ... 

Puebla Polychrome (7, 14) excavated from subway, Mexico City. 

Fig Springs/San Juan Polychrome is an interesting contrast to the San Luis Blue-on-White type. Fig Springs/San Juan Polychrome production has been attributed to Puebla by Goggin and to Mexico City by Lister and... 

Two samples, SC 37 and SC 38, assigned to the proposed Puebla production group, in fact come from the sealed context at the Metropolitan Cathedral. The significance of these two sherds is that they provide evidence of Puebla production of majolica ceramics before 1573. Two of the Fig Springs/San Juan Polychrome sherds, SC 46 and SC 52, excavated at the Sagrario, have the proposed Mexico City composition. On this basis, we propose that there may be two varieties of Fig Springs/San Juan Polychrome, one from Puebla and one from Mexico City. 

Figure 7. Logarithmic plot of the ratios of samarium to lanthanum for the samples from San Luis Blue-on-White (A) and Aucilla and Mt. Royal Polychrome ( ) with the modem Puebla samples included in the 95% confidence ellipse of the Aucilla and Mt. Royal Polychrome group.

Figure 7. Puebla-Blue-on-White (left to right) (top) SA89-SA91 (bottom) SA92-SA94 San Elizario Polychrome from the subway excavations in Mexico...

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