Florida Museum of Natural History, Tallahassee, Florida
Green Bacin/Basin Ware
From: Spain, common in the Carribean, Florida. Produced from 1490 – 1600 CE
The Green Bacin or Green Lebrillo ceramic type is originally from Spain and was exchanged through trade throughout the Carribean and Florida. It was produced from 1490-1600 of the Common Era, and was used in heavy bodied, larger vessels such as bacin, lebrillo, mortars, and platters. Most vessels were massive with widely varying rim diameters found up to 52 centimeters with an average thickness of up to 7 centimeters. The flat upper surfaces of the rims were often stamped with a design similar to an olive branch with leaves. It came off with a buff to light orange paste color and a emerald green opaque tin-lead glaze. It was a lead glazed coarse earthenware. As a pottery type classification it is written about by both Goggin (1968) and Deagan (2002).
- “Ship wreck artifacts: from Florida’s coast. (4) Ceramic fragments, Green Basin type: Green basin pottery, a lead glazed earthenware, had a green colored glaze on the vessel’s interior. The type dates to the 16th century. ” ~ Diorama/display in the Florida Museum of Natural History, Tallahassee, Florida. (Photo 091712-55.jpg) Ship Wreck artifacts: http://www.piraterelief.com/plank/?p=277 (Expected publication January 2013).
Florida Museum of Natural History, Tallahassee, Florida
