Hi Susan,

Patricia Fournier has done a lot of work on the paste composition.  This is a link for the preliminary report on a project she did with James Blackman at the Smithsonian, but she has multiple publications out on the topic.  http://www.famsi.org/reports/06014/06014Fournier.pdf <http://www.famsi.org/reports/06014/06014Fournier.pdf>  I don’t think she is on this list, but you  could contact her directly at Mexico’s Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia if you wanted.

Best,
Elizabeth


Elizabeth Terese Newman, PhD
Associate Professor of History, Stony Brook University
www.elizabethnewman.org

Check out my book, Biography of a Hacienda  <http://www.elizabethnewman.org/book.html>(University of Arizona Press 2014).



> On Sep 14, 2016, at 1:14 PM, Susan Walter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hello All,
> Does anyone know of studies done of Spanish Colonial Majolica paste, body and glaze compositions?  Their chemical compositions and origins?
> We have a multidisciplinary group that is going to do quality reproductions of, perhaps, about 4 different majolicas we find here in San Diego County.
> Thanks for assistance,
> S. Walter