Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Faian~a and Its Presence in Colonial America

Nineteenth- and 20th-century writers deprecated Portugal's 17th-century ceramics, and some American archaeologists have not recognized the quantity or quality of the remains of these on east coast American colonial sites, or learned to identify the sherds. Civil War in England in the 1640s deprived that country's colonies of critical economic support during those years; the colonists were forced to build ships and engage in their own trade with European countries. Colony by colony, this is examined; Sephardic Jewish merchants from Portugal living here at times promoted the trade, as well as American factors living in Portugal or its islands. The trade in ceramics was an adjunct of the wine trade, the ceramics often not being listed on the ship's manifests. Portuguese tin-glazed faian'>a is described and illustrated. The time and reason for the ending of this ceramics trade is considered. Les auteurs du XIXe et du XXe n'ont guere prise La ceramique portugaise du XVIIe siecle et cer-tains archeologues americains n'ont pas reconnu Ia quantite ou La qualite de cette ceramique presente sur les sites coloniaux americains de Ia cote est ou, encore, n'ont pas appris it en identifier les tessons. Laguerre civile en Angleterre, dans les annee 1640, a prive les colonies du pays d'un soutien economique durant ces annees. C'est ainsi que les colons ant du construire des bateaux et voir a leur propre commerce avec les pay