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In Colombia there are few references related to the study on the production, circulation and consumption of Colonial wares and even scarcer are those that refer to industrial pottery. As such we are interested in opening the path for retrospective and interdisciplinary research on some aspects of the historical context in which these activities were immersed. The objective of this paper is to understand the purported effects that a factory for fine pottery established in Bogotá in the 19th century should have in this environment. A new socioeconomic order and the ending of traditions rooted in the Colonial regime were expected, based on the ideals of progress divulged by English industrialists. With this in mind the production technology, including its work regulation strategies and the pottery decorative styles, as a way of influencing daily consumption practices, will be discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to present an interpretive proposal for one of the most common archaeological phenomenon in the Valley of Popayán, i.e., glazed ware, and thereby demonstrate that the disciplinary studies focused on the Colonial and Republican periods may be more useful than the simple corroboration of events told in history texts. In this sense, the mentioned work is more than a substantive production of the so-called historical archaeology and it is specifically circumscribed as a proposal within the framework of material culture studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]