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Highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide
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maiolica
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Maiolica is Italian tin-glazed pottery dating from the Renaissance period. It is decorated in colours on a white background, sometimes depicting historical and mythical scenes, these works known as istoriato wares ("painted with stories"). By the late 15th ...
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n. (alternative spelling of majolica English) (style of Italian glazed earthenware, coated with enamel)
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n. highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide [syn: majolica ]
Usage examples of maiolica.
In consequence they promptly set to work making an enameled ware called Majolica or Maiolica from the Island of Maiorca.
It was a narrower room, furnished with a square oak table and heavy, old-fashioned chairs with surprisingly comfortable saddle-seats, and a court-cupboard decorated with maiolica plates and dishes from the same set as those in his office.