La Cartuja Ceramics

The documents kept by the La Cartuja-Pickman Ceramics Factory Co. are part of the Pickman Museum's historic collection and were declared a "Bien de Interés Cultural" (Spanish Point of Cultural Interest) in 1998. They entered the Historical Archive of the Province of Seville in 2010.

The collection includes business-and-commercial management documentation from the beginning of the 19th century.

Albums of decals, tiles, and printing tests for the ceramic production stand out for their uniqueness and format.

Bright peace

This crockery design depicts three swallows perched on a branch in the center.

It is the fourth in a set of a dozen very similar naturalistic compositions featuring these and other birds in different poses, and shades of pink, brown, and sky blue.

These designs were used to decorate crockery and porcelain. They are no longer in production.

Bright brown bank

The plate border is made of circular and mixtilinear elements decorated with plant and geometric motifs.

The design is topped off with a central rosette with the same decoration.

This model was used on flint ceramic and opaque china crockery. It is no longer in production.

Banded cameo with sepia background

In this crockery design, the edge of the plate is bordered with blue bands, geometric fretwork, and six medallions, alternating between figures and cups, on a sepia background.

This model was used on flint ceramic and opaque china crockery. It is no longer in production.

Bright-sepia pomegranates

This design has a sepia background and a central naturalistic composition with three pomegranates in bright shades of yellow, pink, and green.

This model was used on flint ceramic and opaque china crockery. It is no longer in production.

Bright Eiffel

This crockery design has a central composition with naturalistic floral and wild motifs, decorated with intense pink, green, and honey colors on a sepia background.

This model was used on flint ceramic and opaque china crockery. It is no longer in production.

"María" model

This tile design is clearly Mudejar-inspired and has a composition of eight-pointed stars, alternating honey and blue shades, together with other geometric shapes in green tones on a white background with interlaced ribbon motifs.

"Carthusian" model

This design has a star in the center that emanates latticework.

It is inside a circle decorated with little flowers and surrounded by scrolls, greenery, and thistles. The corners are compartmentalized.

Reproduces 15th- and 16th-century compositional schemes.

"Granada" model

This design is in a square floor tile with borders.

It depicts a set of bamboo branches intertwined with flower stems and pomegranates.

The colors are especially intense: honey, blue, green, and pink.

"Seville" model

This tile design is decorated with interlaced acanthus leaf motifs in the center of each of the two stems.

The background is cream and the overlay colors are green, honey, pink, and blue.

"Yarn" model

This design is a square floor tile with edging and has decorative latticework.

The emblem of the city Seville appears in the center with the yarn and inscription "NO-DO."

Coat of arms of the Russian Empire

This tile model depicts the small shield of the Russian Empire.

A black double-headed eagle appears on a gold background with its wings spread and an imperial crown on each head. It holds the imperial orb and scepter in its claws.

On its chest it bears the Moscow coat of arms surrounded by a chain bearing insignias and the eagle of the Order of St. Andrew Protomartyr.

Coat of arms of Spain

The tile depicts the Spanish coat of arms with the Golden Fleece, as used during the Bourbon Restoration (1874–1931).

It was also used as the King's coat of arms.

It is in four quarters and the Kingdoms of Castile, León, Aragón, and Navarre are represented, as is that of Granada.

The royal hooped crown appears on the crest.

Coat of arms of Monaco

This tile depicts the coat of arms of Monaco: the Grimaldi family blazon.

It is composed of a royal crown draped with an ermine-lined cape, tied back by golden, tasseled ropes.

Below this it has spiral-shaped 'fusily of argent and gules' surrounded by the chain of the Order of St. Charles held up by two monks.

At the bottom is the motto of the Princes of Monaco: "Deo Juvante" (With God's help).

Coat of arms of the United Kingdom

This tile depicts the coat of arms of the United Kingdom. England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are represented.

It is surrounded by the insignia of the Order of the Garter, with the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Shamed be he who thinks evil of it).

At the bottom St. George appears on horseback, as does the phrase "Dieu et mon Droit" (God and my right) in gold on an azure ribbon alongside two red roses surrounded by greenery.

Coat of arms of the Austrian Empire

This tile depicts the coat of arms of the Austrian Empire.

It features a black double-headed eagle with crowns on its heads and its wings spread. It is holding a sword and an orb.

On its chest are the arms of the Archduke of Austria, the old blazon of the Dynasty (County of Habsburg) and the Duchy of Lorraine.

The chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece is around the shield.