Crossword clues for majolica
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Majolica \Ma*jol"i*ca\, n. [It.] A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy decoration, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century.
Note: The term is said to be derived from Majorca, which was
an early seat of this manufacture.
--Heyse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Italian glazed pottery, 1550s, from Italian Majolica, 14c. name of island now known as Majorca in the Balearics, from Latin maior (see major (adj.)); so called because it is the largest of the three islands. The best pottery of this type was said to have been made there.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fine Italian glazed earthenware, coated with opaque white enamel and ornamented with metallic colours. 2 Any other kind of glazed coloured earthenware or faience.
WordNet
n. highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide [syn: maiolica]
Wikipedia
Majolica may refer to:
- Victorian majolica, earthenware pottery decorated with brightly colored lead glazes best known for naturalistic/whimsical style.
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Tin-glazed pottery, decorated earthenware pottery with an opaque white glaze.
- Maiolica, a type of tin-glazed pottery, as above, made in Italy.
Usage examples of "majolica".
In consequence they promptly set to work making an enameled ware called Majolica or Maiolica from the Island of Maiorca.
Italians, who were ever an ingenious people, began among other things to attempt to copy the glaze on this Majolica ware.
Capo di Monte, and Majolica that it soon became a great problem to tell the real from the imitation, and this has caused collectors no end of trouble.
They were all returned, except one which gave the history of a rare bit of majolica, which had been picked up forty cents and then sold for five hundred dollars, and was now owned by a collector who had paid four thousand dollars for it.
Then he went back through the lobby toward the elevator bank and stood beside a majolica jar of white sand.
Victorian majolica vase filled with teazles and pampas grass to the floor, shattering it.
He could never be sure whether a rosebud was intended to lie in that negligent fashion on the marble surface of a table or whether it had been inadvertently dislodged from its fellows in the majolica bowl by his own clumsy hand.
She signalled to another man who had just finished wrapping a cushion of styrofoam around a majolica vase at a nearby table.
She was just Joanna, cool and humorous, yet sympathetic and serious, and as pretty as a Majolica figurine.
Looking closely she sees that it consists of ants: a monstrous file composed of thousands of tiny creatures that scurry to and from the kitchen dresser, crossing the entire kitchen and climbing up the walls, to reach the lard that fills the majolica soup tureen shaped like a duck.
I would spend the afternoons there with my books beside one of those big blue and white majolica stoves.
Her cousin Cady could discuss the rinceau motifs used in the decoration of sixteenth-century majolica dishes for hours on end, but Sylvia could design long-term corporate strategy.
The Cavaliere Davila, a Neapolitan gentleman of gigantic stature and almost femininely gentle manners, a noted collector and connoisseur of majolica, gave his opinion on each article of importance.