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Platter / Bandeja
1750-1800, Puebla, Mexico
Houghton Sawyer Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Holstius, Museum of International Folk Art (Museum of New Mexico), Santa Fe
Photo by Paul Smutko

Spanish potters in Sevilla developed a style known as montería which typically showed a hunting scene. This in turn is derived from the Italian istoriato style that highlighted historic, allegoric or genre figures. These two influences converge in this Mexican platter whose form is borrowed from French silver prototypes and whose palette is influenced by Chinese porcelains.