It is a large arched recess with a view of the seashore, not very decorative in style, painted on majolica tiles at the back.
There are also two very beautiful paintedmajolica panels of fruit-trees let into the lower part.
The chief existing work known to be by the second LUCA[14] is the very rich and beautiful tile pavement in the uppermost story of Raphael's loggie at the Vatican, finely designed and painted in harmonious majolica colours.
We have noticed before that the majolica ware was not made in these islands, but at Valencia, and that it acquired the name from Balearic vessels being used for its export to Italy.
In porcelain and pottery the majolica ware, made at Valencia, was renowned throughout Europe; and the Moorish glazed and lustred ware, the manufacture of which remained a secret till the present century, is greatly sought after by amateurs.
The district was formerly noted for its silk-growing and stuffs of silk; also for the fine pottery known as Majolica ware from its carriers to the Italian ports, the sailors of Majorca and the Balearic Isles.
He found them in Trombin's room, sitting near the open window with their coats off, and eating fruit from a huge blue and yellowmajolica basket that stood between them on the end of the table.
One of the oldest pieces of majolica in the Correro Museum in Venice, Solomon worshiping the idol, bears the date 1482.
When the affairs of state left him any leisure he amused himself at a turning-lathe which he had set up, and also in painting majolica vases, in which art he was exceedingly skilful.
The paste of which this Fayence is composed is equally distinct from Majolica and Palissy ware.
You can imagine my distress at having to continue the search for Lake Majolica alone.
If within twenty-four hours Lake Majolica is not discovered I give the command to fire!
I was freed, Lake Majolica was discovered before ten o'clock the next morning, and at five o'clock I was on my way home, the British army reposing quietly in my breast pocket.
He then causes a plate to be put at each place, large enough to hold the majolica plate with the oysters, which will come later.
Two days after the accident to the pink cup, the majolica pickle-dish was found shattered in front of the safe, when Marvin came out to start the kitchen fire.
The safe doors were ajar, and they decided that the majolica dish must have got pushed too near the edge of the shelf, and that a sudden jar had dislodged it.
Old Mrs. Bray carried away with her the fragments of the majolica pickle-dish and that afternoon, and other afternoons, she passed in the solitary privacy of her room.
The safe doors were never remembered to have been left open before; the majolica dish had always sat well back; and nothing more jarring than Marvin's step disturbed the habitual quiet of the house.
But the philosophy which the prophetess of Mautineia taught Socrates settles the matter, and solves, satisfactorily what in my mind I always think of as the question of the majolica inkstand.
Its border design seems to be a degenerate form of a beetle-like device found on Portuguese majolica of the period.
Henry Chandlee Forman, asserting that such ware was "undoubtedly made in England," felt that it "derives its inspiration from Majolica ware .
How long do you suppose that majolica has been in the family?
He was the young buck who brought the majolica out of Italy," I supplemented.
Imitations of Italian majolica with polychrome painting on a white enamelled ground were first made in southern Germany about 1525, and it is with these wares that the name of Hirsvogel should really be associated.
Apart from the lustred enrichment, the majolicaof Gubbio has few distinctive qualities, for its styles were various and almost all borrowed (see fig 47).
It had nothing to do with majolica, being the natural development of a much older process; and its manufacture was carried on all through the period of majolica manufacture and has never ceased.
When one of the later majolica painters had spent weeks on the decoration of some vase or dish, with an elaborate composition of carefully drawn figures, it was not likely that he would care to expose it to any risks that could be avoided.
In the later majolica a thin coating of soft rich glaze was applied over the fired painting to give a smooth bright surface.
The majolica of Castelli is distinguished by the lightness of the ware, good technique, and harmonious but pale and rather weak colouring; it continued into the 18th century.
Where lustre decoration has been added to a piece of majolica it indicates, as elsewhere, the use of a special process, and a final firing at a lower heat.
A plate is furnished each place, large enough to contain the Majolica plate for raw oysters.
This name is applied to most soft paste glazed pottery, while majolica is a ware that has a peculiar luster, and in different lights displays all the colors of the rainbow.
Yes; in the splendid Castellani collection there are some of the very best specimens of the finest majolica ever made,--that produced in the fifteenth century by Giorgio Andreoli of Gubbio, and others who followed him.
Palissy, a very inquisitive and intelligent man, is said to have been possessed by a strong desire to reproduce some Italian ware, which he had the opportunity of seeing; whether it was a piece of majolica or of graffito, is not known.
After the sixteenth century, majolicasoon degenerated in appearance and quality, the producers being more anxious to supply the market, than to devote to their ware the care and attention bestowed on it by their predecessors.
The name of majolica is now applied indiscriminately to all fancy articles of coloured pottery.
Majolica was produced for the first time by Messrs.
The majolica and Delft tiles, chiefly the last, have been almost exclusively used during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and it is only within the last forty years, that we began to make them in earthenware.
I have given the name of majolica to that class of ornament, whose surface is covered with opaque enamels of a great variety of colours.
In Italy, the collection of majolica made by the Chevalier Massa, at Pesaro, is specially worthy of notice, and contains specimens of most varieties made in the duchy.
Footnote *242: The finest collection of Italian majolica in the world is probably that in Pesaro in the possession of the Municipality.
Thus much regarding the various manufactories of majolica connected with Urbino.
The most active person at the funeral was the chemist's only nephew, Clive Timmis, partner in a small but prosperous firm of majolica manufacturers at Bursley.
The other girl was named May too--May Deane, child of the well-known majolica manufacturer, who lived with his sons and daughter in a solitary and ancient house at Toft End.
The Italian Renascence majolica and lustre ware give more sumptuous effect and more pictorial treatment, but are not nearly so safe a guide in taste as the Greek.
It has a relationship with bygone majolica of another land.
The earliest examples of the Copenhagen faience suggest that the old Italian majolica models had lingered in the memory of the potters making their essay into a new domain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "majolica" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
