Maiolica

For all the images of beautiful women, in paintings and on the tin-glazed pottery called maiolica, the bella donna remained property. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The lavish wedding celebrations of the period were marked by extravagant gifts, such as maiolica decorated with narratives or portraits; rare Venetian glassware; rings (including one of the earliest known diamond wedding rings) and other jewelry; delicate gilded boxes; and vividly painted cassoni, or bridal chests, which would be filled with costly linens and clothing.

More fluxes are added to maiolica colorants than to underglaze colorants and the lower the viscosity of the colors and the glaze is, the more the decoration will run and the contours of the decoration will be blurred. ❋ Unknown (1993)

The maiolica technique can also be used by decorating with coloured glazes on top of the basic glaze. ❋ Unknown (1993)

-- This maiolica is a tin-glazed earthenware with a soft body usually buff in color and porous in texture. ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)

The 17th-century Italian maiolica-ware found at Jamestown is a red-body earthenware with scratched or incised designs -- a true sgraffito-ware. ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)

A few examples of maiolica found at Jamestown are believed to have been made in Lisbon, and these usually have designs in blues and dark purples against a white background. ❋ J. Paul Hudson (N/A)

Among the most excessive is the ravishing Vila Algarve, a rococo fantasy of curving terraces and balconies and stairways, topped off with urns and grotesques and maiolica-tiled tableaux, the whole place teetering on the verge of complete disintegration. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This includes examples of brightly colored maiolica (a type of ceramic), venetian glass and jewelry. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Likewise, the safe birth of a child was celebrated and commemorated with the production of finely painted deschi da parto (wooden childbirth trays) and maiolica childbirth bowls known as scodelle da parto.

Among these works are marriage portraits and paintings that extol sensual love and fertility, exquisite examples of jewelry and maiolica (tin-glazed ceramic) given as gifts to couples, and some of the rarest and most significant pieces of Renaissance glassware, cassone panels, birth trays, and drawings and prints of amorous subjects.

Unearned correlational art guts methodist brierwood, cheerless inexterminable maiolica, irreparable agama, nasal freeware. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This new acquisition - a gift to The Frick Collection by Dianne Dwyer Modestini in memory of her husband, Mario Modestini - is the inspiration for a small focus exhibition on the Fontana workshop's highly decorative maiolica painted with delicate grotesques on a whitened ground. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not all the maiolica and other decorative pieces celebrated love and marriage. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That's answered in the show's first part, "Celebrating Betrothal, Marriage and Childbirth," with its colorful ceramic pottery (maiolica), Venetian glassware, finely crafted wedding rings, painted bridal chests (cassoni), marriage portraits and birth trays. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The approximately 150 objects, which date from about 1400 to the mid-16th century, range from exquisite examples of maiolica and jewelry given as gifts to the couple, to marriage portraits and paintings that extol sensual love and fecundity, such as the Metropolitan’s Venus and Cupid by the great Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto. ❋ Julianne Douglas (2008)

[We need] a beautiful Maiolica for our [living room] [decoration]. ❋ Maiolica (2021)

[We need] a beautiful Maiolica for our [living room] [decoration]. ❋ Maiolica (2021)