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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Maiolica designates Italian tin-glazed pottery dating from the Renaissance. The name is thought to come from the medieval Italian word for Majorca, an island on the route for ships bringing Hispano-Moresque wares from Valencia to Italy. Moorish potters from Majorca are reputed to have worked in Sicily and it has been suggested that their wares reached the Italian mainland from Caltagirone An alternative explanation of the name is that it comes from the Spanish term obra de Malaga, denoting “ wares from Malaga”. During the Renaissance, the term maiolica referred solely to lusterware, including both Italian-made and Spanish imports, but eventually the term came to be used when describing ceramics made in Italy, lustered or not, of tin-glazed earthenware. With the Spanish conquest of Mexico, tin-glazed maiolica wares came to be produced in the Valley of Mexico as early as 1540, at first in imitation of tin-glazed pottery imported from Seville. Mexican maiolica is known famously as 'Talavera'.
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- PublisherAlphascript Publishing
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 6130664354
- ISBN 13 9786130664350
- BindingTapa blanda
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages108
- EditorMiller Frederic P., Vandome Agnes F., McBrewster John
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