Can Monroig ceramics

During the renovation work we started in 2004 at Can Monroig, we found several buried ceramic pieces, both in the courtyard and inside the house. Some areas and levels of the house had been transformed over the years, covered with earth and stone. It was common to use waste material such as broken or defective ceramics in the fillings. Remember that this area of Inca was a neighbourhood of potters or “gerrers” and therefore it is normal to have found such a large number of broken plates, dishes or jugs inside the house. Among these remains, some pieces stand out for their uniqueness, their good condition or their beauty.

The most interesting piece is undoubtedly a 9 cm high baked clay horse with the remains of a whistle and a rider on its back. It is a primitive “siurell”. By comparison and similarity with the horse found in the Olivar market in Palma, detailed in the book “Zoomorphic Decoration in the Eastern Islands of Al-Andalus” by Guillermo Rossello-Bordoy, it could be a figure from the Almoravid period.

Siurell, Almoravid horse

Polychrome terracotta angel

A few centimetres tall effigy found in a jar buried in the courtyard

Siurell

The ceramic fragments of bowls have been compared with those found in Sineu at the beginning of the 20th century next to the parish church of Santa María, most of which date from the 15th century.

Ceramic fragment of a bowl

Fragment of a 16th century bowl

Manises 15th century

Tile

Peasant

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