Tin Glazed

Named for the city in the Netherlands where some of it was made, Delft pottery is hand-painted, tin-glazed earthenware that first emerged in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, intended to imitate Chinese porcelain. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In one of the two newly reinstalled ceramics galleries is an opulent array of 15th-century tin-glazed earthenware with luster decoration from Valencia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Spaniards used a potter's wheel and were knowledgeable in the production of tin-glazed earthenware. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There is a wide variety of ceramic ware types including Chinese import porcelain, tin-glazed wares, creamware, Staffordshire-style slipware and locally made stonewares and redwares. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A seventeenth-century English tin-glazed earthenware flower vase, recovered from the Port Royal site (Courtesy of Donny L. Hamilton and the Port Royal Project) ❋ Unknown (2006)

A tin-glazed earthenware with an opaque colored glaze, originating in Faenza in 1714. ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

A tin-glazed earthenware similar to faience, characteristically decorated with bright colors on the glaze before firing. ❋ CHERYL MENDELSON (2005)

: In fact, Talavera is the oldest tin-glazed ceramic in America and it is still being manufactured with the same techniques as in the 16th Century. jennifer rose ❋ Unknown (2002)

In fact, Talavera is the oldest tin-glazed ceramic in America and it is still being manufactured with the same techniques as in the 16th Century. ❋ Unknown (2002)

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

Majolica colorful tin-glazed earthenware examples can be very pricey, as can examples made in Wedgwood's elegant Jasperware. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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

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.