# Talavera Poblana (タラベラ・ポブラーナ) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.515 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/talavera-poblana
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Talavera Poblana, a style from Ceramic Styles, 16th century–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: when a kitchen or a facade should be covered surface by surface in one repeating tile, or when a piece stays blue and white but needs exactly one local figure inside it. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- A thick milky white glaze covers the whole piece and pools into a visible step at rim and foot
- Compartmented borders painted in a single blue run all the way around the rim
- Among Chinese style flowers and rocks sits one local figure, such as a quetzal or a crowned double-headed eagle
- Tiles repeat one design across a whole wall, and no two carry the same brush pressure

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Work concentrically: a band of small compartments at the rim, one main figure at the centre. The white of the glaze is the empty space, so none has to be carved out
- Type and lettering: If words are needed, run them once around the rim in the same blue and the same brush as the painting. Keep each workshop's hand rather than regularising it into type
- Material and surface: Age the clay, throw or mould the form, biscuit fire it, then lay on a thick white glaze containing tin. Paint straight onto the dry powdery glaze with cobalt, and fire once more so glaze and painting set together
- Colour: #F4EFE4 carries the ground, #D9A425 is the colour the style is remembered by, #23458C holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: trust, exhilaration, nostalgia

## What goes wrong

Regularise the brushwork and you lose the drag of a brush over thick glaze, so the painting starts to look printed on.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/talavera-poblana/design.md