Olive jar
The need for ceramic containers to hold merchandise sent to the New World led to development of potters' neighborhoods in Seville and Cádiz.
[6] Some jars with a distinctive red paste and a different style of rim marks may have been produced in Cazalla de la Sierra, 75 km north-northeast of Seville.
Goggin's Early Style, produced from about 1500 to 1580, which is approximately globular with handles flanking the rim, has since been recognized as the cantimplora.
His Middle and Late styles, which are generally egg-shaped, or less often, globular or carrot-shaped,[8] with rounded bottoms and without handles, are now recognized as botijas.
[12] Olive jars were the primary shipping containers in the Spanish Empire, but were also used in wider trade networks.
[18] Some jars with a distinctive red paste and a different style of rim marks may have been produced in Cazalla de la Sierra, 75 km (47 mi) north-northeast of Seville.
Such jars have been found at the Santo Domingo Monastery in Antigua Guatemala, the Huaco Palomin site in Peru, and Santa Elena (in South Carolina), and in wrecks of ships in the Spanish Armada of 1588 and, possibly, in the Nuestra Señora de Atocha wreck in the Florida Keys.
[7] Olive jars found on shipwrecks of known date help establish a time line for changes in styles.
They have been found in the British Isles, Brittany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Caribbean Islands, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, Canada, the Philippines, Australia, the Solomon Islands,[21] English settlements in North and South Carolina,[22] and at the site of a Native American camp in Nebraska.
