Vase. Juan Ruiz de Luna

Vase. Factory JUAN RUÍZ DE LUNA (Noez, 1863 - Talavera de la Reina, 1945), ca. 1920-30.
Glazed ceramic.
With signature on the side and back.
Present slight chipping and marks of use.
Measurements: 50 x 30 x 30 cm.

Vase made by Juan Ruiz de Luna, ceramist heir of the tradition of Talavera de la Reina, becoming a popular personality of the Spain of the Golden Century. His artistic style was characterized by the readaptation and modernization of ancient stylistic models.
Of Muslim origin, the ceramics of Talavera de la Reina acquired industrial importance in the 16th century. Quoted by Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina, Talavera earthenware can also be documented in a large part of Spanish Baroque painting. Used by nobles and the humble, its commercial monopoly was in constant conflict with Sevillian earthenware. One of the architects of the recovery of Spanish Talavera ceramics was Juan Niveiro with the founding of the "El Carmen" factory; the incorporation of workers brought from Manises meant another important change in its decorative series. Changes that would reinforce the tricolor series produced by another emerging pottery in the mid-nineteenth century: "La Menora". The earthenware and tiles produced in Talavera de la Reina (Castilla La Mancha, Spain) throughout its five centuries of recognized ceramic tradition has generated such a rich and varied typology that a classification into series proposed since the end of the 19th century by different specialists has become necessary in order to facilitate their study and cataloguing.