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Vintage Mexican Wood Batea Round Platter Tray Hand Painted Red Flowers
Vintage Mexican Wood Batea Round Platter Tray Hand Painted Red Flowers
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- Vintage Wood raised Batea platter.
- Diameter- 11"
- Raise-1 1/4"
- Bateas are wooden trays or bowls usually hand painted black and then hand painted with flowers or birds or rarely lake scenes.
- This lovely tray/platter has two handles. The inside of the bowl has a beautiful red flower.
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The pre-Conquest practice of applying burnished layers of oil or fat, lime and indigenous pigments onto gourds or wood to produce durable utilitarian wares fascinated early Spanish settlers in Mexico.
- The technique came to be called Mexican lacquerware, laca mexicana, after the more commonly known lacquenvare of Asia.
- Colonial documents reveal that the first objects in this medium come from Peribán (Michoacán) as early as the seventeenth century where workshops produced chests, sewing boxes, trays, gourd cups, and bateas, large deep circular trays such as the one illustrated.
- The platter/tray is in great condition even though it has a few small chips. mostly on the back of the bowl.
