Maiolica /maɪˈɒlɪkə/ is tin-glazed pottery decorated in colours on a white background. The most renowned Italian maiolica is from the Renaissance period...
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Tin-glazed pottery (section Maiolica)
Hispano-Moresque ware. The decorated tin-glaze of Renaissance Italy is called maiolica, sometimes pronounced and spelt majolica by English speakers and authors...
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Lodi ceramics (redirect from Lodi maiolica)
uniform. Having a tin based glaze, Lodi ceramics are to be considered maiolica. The firing technique was based on gran fuoco (double firing) or on piccolo...
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distinct types of pottery. Firstly, from the mid-15th century onwards, was maiolica, a type of pottery reaching Italy from Spain, Majorca and beyond. This...
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Vasylkiv maiolica rooster (Ukrainian: Півник васильківської майоліки, romanized: Pivnyk vasylkivskoi maioliky) is a replicated decorative piece produced...
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The Maiolica di Laterza is a kind of maiolica made in the town of Laterza, part of the Apulia region in Italy. The Maiolica di Laterza is made under the...
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faience. Italian tin-glazed earthenware, at least the early forms, is called maiolica in English, Dutch wares are called Delftware, and their English equivalents...
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Gentile (16 July 1678 - 11 July 1763) was an Italian painter and potter of maiolica in Castelli, Abruzzo. He trained with Carlo Antonio Grue, the son of Francesco...
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fine brush painted decoration in imitation of the Italian Renaissance maiolica process and styles. Glaze is a vitreous coating on a ceramic. Types of...
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Umbria, Italy, is mainly known as a major centre for the production of maiolica (painted tin-glazed earthenware) in the Renaissance and later. Production...
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Waddesdon Bequest (section Italian maiolica)
included exquisite examples of jewellery, plate, enamel, carvings, glass and maiolica. One of the earlier objects is the outstanding Holy Thorn Reliquary, probably...
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potter Guido da Savino settled in 1500, and in the 16th century Italian maiolica was the main influence on decorative styles. The manufacture of painted...
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of luxury items such as jewellery, ivory caskets, cassone chests, and maiolica pottery. These objects also included the Hispano-Moresque ware produced...
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Orazio Fontana (1510–1571) was an Italian potter and maiolica painter, who introduced istoriato maiolica in Urbino. He was born in Castel Durante as the son...
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of Westminster. Sergey Chekhonin, Sergey Vasilyevich Gerasimov, Central maiolica panel about the battle of Saint George the Victorious with the Serpent...
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Maria Olbrich (1897–98) Floral design by Alois Ludwig on the façade of Maiolica House in Vienna by Otto Wagner (1898) Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station in Vienna...
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Germany and Switzerland. There is an unrivalled collection of Italian maiolica and lustreware from Spain. The collection of Iznik pottery from Turkey...
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Avelli maiolica dishes It is thought that between 1531 and 1535 Francesco Xanto Avelli saw Agostino Veneziano's copy of I modi. Xanto painted a maiolica dish...
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Italy Renaissance cornucopias on a plate, by Giorgio Andreoli, 1531, maiolica, Petit Palais, Paris Renaissance relief of Ceres, on the east facade of...
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The cupoletta (decorated with maiolica) in the Palazzo delle Poste Centrali...
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faïence works. In 1862, the Campana collection added gold jewelry and maiolicas, mainly from the 15th and 16th centuries.: 451-454 The works are displayed...
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became a luxury for late medieval elites, and was adapted in Italy into maiolica in the Italian Renaissance. Both of these were faience or tin-glazed earthenware...
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than just blue on a white background, in a style that is referred to as Maiolica. The body colour of earthenware varies depending on the raw materials used...
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the younger branch of the Medici — who established the manufacture of maiolica in the villa's outbuildings — until all the Medici holdings were once more...
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passed to Europe. Includes Hispano-Moresque ware, Italian Renaissance maiolica (also called majolica), faience and Delftware. Glaze may be applied by...
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Hypermnestra watching Lynceus take her father's crown; Cupid holds up the motto "Love Conquers All" (maiolica plate, 1537, by Francesco Xanto Avelli)...
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body, only to discover that he was resurrected. She is shown here transferring the ointment from a maiolica pharmacy jar to a smaller vessel. c. 1524...
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in particular Manises – and later Barcelona. Lustre appears in Italian maiolica around 1500, and became a speciality of two relatively minor pottery towns...
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artistic peak in the 18th century, with the production of fine, tin-glazed maiolica. The main factories were those of Coppellotti, Ferretti and Rossetti. The...
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