A 14-inch-high ewer, probably English. It is decorated on one side only and appears to be made with a lead glaze, which would make it majolica. Majolica, a craze especially during the Victorian ...

It has a characteristically slick or ”wet look” surface made possible by the refinement of lead glaze that enhances the clear jewel-like colors of the pottery. Beard`s majolica turned out to ...

Majolica might be an unfamiliar name, but the famous pottery has a look that is easy to recognize. The heavy pottery has a colorful, thick glaze that is easily chipped. Most 19th and 20th century ...

Majolica pottery—exuberant objects glazed with lead ranging from the practical to the purely ornamental—took cues from Italian maiolica glossed with tin as well as the highly decorative work ...

expository article of the history of blue-and-white ware NOVA's "The Sultan's Lost Treasure" program visual resources of Persian tin glazed-cobalt decorated-earthenware, early majolica ware ...

It actually can be several things. In the Renaissance, “majolica” or “maiolica” started being made as a type of tin glazed earthenware that was introduced to the world from Moorish Spain ...

Majolica was a mass-produced pottery that aimed to imitate the authentic Italian tin-glazed earthenware called Maiolica, which was produced in the 15th and 16th centuries. "The Victorians loved ...

It actually can be several things. In the Renaissance, “majolica” or “maiolica” started being made as a type of tin glazed earthenware that was introduced to the world from Moorish Spain ...

Unlike Polish pottery, Majolica is known for its tin-glazed earthenware, which was initially made to look like Chinese porcelain’s bright white surface. Majolica pieces often feature scenes from ...

Inspired by Italian “maiolica” (the white-glazed, decorative ceramics of the Italian Renaissance) and the works of Bernard Palissy, a noted French potter, majolica was the brainchild of ...

Renaissance majolica was completely covered with an opaque white glaze, but the lead glazes on 19th-Century majolica were usually brightly colored and almost transparent. The Italian majolica ...

Each piece in “Majolica Mania,” the new exhibit running through Aug. 7, has been finished with a shiny glaze that’s almost transparent. That glaze makes the colors beneath it — a turquoise ...