One of these is made up of grotesques of the kind familiar in the later maiolica of the Urbino school.
In the painting there appear in addition to cobalt-blue two colours of common occurrence in the maiolica of the Urbino school, a strong brownish-orange and a greenish-blue derived from copper, the latter much blurred in the firing.
The most exquisite flowers and insects, and other delicate objects, were reproduced in filagree silver; and the first maiolica works in Northern Europe were also founded here.
He returned at length to Antwerp, where his Portuguese friends sent him several maiolica bowls and some Calcutta feathers, and his host gave also certain Indian and Turkish curiosities.
Maiolica a historical treatise on the glazed and enamelled earthenwares of Italy, with marks and monograms also some notice of the Persian Damascus, Rhodian, and Hispano-Moresque Wares by C.
A descriptive Catalogue of Maiolica Hispano-Moresco, Persian, Damascus, and Rhodian wares, in the South Kensington Museum.
Maiolica fina or fayence only is still continued to be made, the manufacture of porcelain, for which at one time the works were so famed, not having been revived.
The idea probably originated from the fact that many designs were reproduced on maiolica by the keramic artists from engravings of Raphael and other great masters.
FORLI According to Passeri there were fabriques of maiolica at Forli in the 14th century.
GENOA Piccolpassi speaks of Genoa as a great mart for maiolica about the year 1540.
It can scarcely be believed that maiolica was a novelty but it can easily be understood that a piece of white porcelain, viewed in the light of the contemporary knowledge of enamels, would appear of marvellous quality.
It was at one time supposed that this cup was of Italian maiolica but later authorities incline to the belief that it was a piece of Chinese porcelain which Palissy supposed to have been enameled.
This ware is sometimes sold under the name ofmaiolica but it is more nearly an imitation of Palissy.
This maiolica is a tin-glazed earthenware with a soft body usually buff in color and porous in texture.
One kind of maiolica may have been made in Mexico, while the few fragments of porcelain recovered were made in China.
Maiolica is a word derived from a type of pottery made on the Spanish island of Mallorca.
A few examples of maiolica found at Jamestown are believed to have been made in Lisbon, and these usually have designs in blues and dark purples against a white background.
Sevres shapes and designs were imitated at Doccia, and a large production is now going on of the maiolica vases and dishes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which are sold all over Europe and in America.
The decoration resembles the style of maiolica known as Raffaelesque; the body is white and the painting of a light blue.
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