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1. '''Maiolica n.''' Earthenware coated with opaque white tin-glaze, brush-painted with metallic oxide colours. Renaissance Italian maiolica became a celebrated art form. Maiolica developed in France as faience, in the UK and Netherlands as delft. Mintons named their maiolica 'majolica', introducing it at the 1851 Exhibition. |
1. '''Maiolica n.''' Earthenware coated with opaque white tin-glaze, brush-painted with metallic oxide colours. Renaissance Italian maiolica became a celebrated art form. Maiolica developed in France as faience, in the UK and Netherlands as delft. Mintons named their maiolica 'majolica', introducing it at the 1851 Exhibition. |
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Hyponyms: [[Hispano-Moresque ware]], Renaissance [[maiolica]], [[Delftware]], [[faience]] |
Hyponyms: [[Hispano-Moresque ware]], Renaissance [[maiolica]], [[Delftware]], [[faience]] |
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*{{quote-text|lang=en|year=1851|author=London Jrnl. Arts, Sci., & Manuf.|title=Great Exhibition of the Works of all Nations |page=61|passage=The specimens of the revived [Italian Renaissance tin-glaze maiolica style and process] majolica in the Exhibition are by Minton [...]}} |
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2. Earthenware coated with coloured lead glazes applied directly to an unglazed body, made from 1850. Mintons initially named their majolica 'Palissy ware', introducing it at the 1851 Exhibition. '''Victorian Majolica''' refers to tin-glazed maiolica (1.) and coloured glazes majolica (2.) manufactured in UK before 1900. |
2. Earthenware coated with coloured lead glazes applied directly to an unglazed body, made from 1850. Mintons initially named their majolica 'Palissy ware', introducing it at the 1851 Exhibition. '''Victorian Majolica''' refers to tin-glazed maiolica (1.) and coloured glazes majolica (2.) manufactured in UK before 1900. |
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Etymology
Noun
majolica (countable and uncountable, plural majolicas)
1. Maiolica n. Earthenware coated with opaque white tin-glaze, brush-painted with metallic oxide colours. Renaissance Italian maiolica became a celebrated art form. Maiolica developed in France as faience, in the UK and Netherlands as delft. Mintons named their maiolica 'majolica', introducing it at the 1851 Exhibition.
Hyponyms: Hispano-Moresque ware, Renaissance maiolica, Delftware, faience
- 1831, Encycl. Amer., V. 38, page 1:
- A fine sort of pottery was manufactured there [...] which the Italians called Maiolica.
- 1850, Gentleman's Magazine, August 1850, page 165/1:
- The early specimens of Majolica of the fourteenth century...are...ornamented with arabesque patterns in yellow and green upon a blue ground.
- 1851, London Jrnl. Arts, Sci., & Manuf., Great Exhibition of the Works of all Nations, page 61:
- The specimens of the revived [Italian Renaissance tin-glaze maiolica style and process] majolica in the Exhibition are by Minton [...]
2. Earthenware coated with coloured lead glazes applied directly to an unglazed body, made from 1850. Mintons initially named their majolica 'Palissy ware', introducing it at the 1851 Exhibition. Victorian Majolica refers to tin-glazed maiolica (1.) and coloured glazes majolica (2.) manufactured in UK before 1900.
Hyponyms: Renaissance Palissy majolica, Palissy ware/majolica, Mexican majolica, European majolica, 20th century majolica.
References
- Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1] (etymology)
- “majolica” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
- The Journal of Design and Manufactures Vol III (1850), Original papers: The exhibition of medieval art at the Society of Arts., pp 67-73
- London Journal of Arts (1851) 39, p 61
- Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue in Three Volumes, Volume II. (1851) London. W. Clowes & Sons Catalogue Entries 72, 74.
- Lecture XXIII 'On Ceramic Manufactures, Porcelain and Pottery', L. Arnoux, Esq., 'Lectures on the Results of the Great Exhibition of 1851'; published London (1853) by David Rogue, 86 Fleet Street.
- The Illustrated London News, Nov. 10, 1855, p.561