José Alves Cunha
Portuguese, active c. 1860 - 1885
(not assigned)Caldas da Reinhas, Portugal, Europe
BiographyJose Alves Cunha (c. 1860 to 1880) established a small pottery in Caldas da Rainha in 1860, and was a prolific and very well-known Palissy follower.JOSÉ ALVES CUNHA (fl. 1860-ca. 1885)
José Alves Cunha {also known as José Alves da Cunha), who established a small factory in Caldas da Rainha in 1860, was second only to Manuel Mafra in the number of works he produced during the decades of the 1860s and 1870s.
It is likely, though undocumented, that Cunha even worked for Mafra, because his work more closely resembles Mafra's than does the work of any other Caldas ceramist. Many works by Cunha and Mafra would be impossible to distinguish were it not for their respective marks. Cunha is best known for his rendition of the famous cabbage-leaf tea service with snake handles {not shown) taken from a latter eighteenth-century Portuguese design from the Royal Ceramics Factory in Lisbon. Cunha is believed to have retired in the mid-1880s. A mark bearing the inscription "José A. Cunha Sucessor, Caldas, Portugal" suggests the factory was continued by others.
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