majolica

From Italian maiolica, named after the Island of Majorca (formerly known as Maiolica), which was once a commerce center for work produced in Valencia, Spain.

majolica (countable and uncountable, plural majolicas)

1. Earthenware, coated with opaque white tin glaze and ornamented with metallic colours.
   • 1857, Joseph Marryat, History of Pottery and Porcelain, Medieval and Modern, page #:373 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Jxci_C54bFMC/page/n419

     Enamel - A vitrifiable substance; opaque, generally Stanniferous majolica [...]

   • 2019, Metrolpolitan Museum, New York, Dish, Early 15th century, page #: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/468163?searchField=Description&sortBy=Relevance&what=Maiolica&ao=on&ft=tin+glaze&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=2

     Medium: Earthenware, tin-glaze (Majolica) [...] in the early eighteenth, earthenwares with tin glazes were the most widely produced ceramics in Europe.

   • 1907, Edwin Atlee Barber, Tin enamelled Pottery Maiolica, Delft and other Stanniferous Faience, Doubleday, Page & Company New York, page #:6

     The word Majolica, or Maiolica […] was applied to all Stanniferous faience of Italy and Spain.

   • 1999, Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, Dictionary of Minton, ACC Art Books (2nd Revised edition edition 1 Jan. 1999), page #:124

     Minton did not use the word maiolica themselves, relying instead on the Victorian version, majolica, which they used to mean wares of Renaissance inspiration, featuring hand painting on an opaque white glaze. […].

2. Earthenware coated with coloured lead glazes applied directly to an unglazed body, made from 1850.
   • 1862, Editorial Staff, Art Journal Catalogue, Exhibited Class XXXV, no.6873, D78., page #:8 https://archive.org/details/artjournalillust1863lond/page/n25?q=1862+Art+journal+Catalogue

     The Italian Vase [top, left, p.8] is Majolica, […] the painting being executed by a process not hitherto employed. […] The Ewer [bottom, middle, p.8] is a Palissy vase.

   • 1877, Leon Arnoux, Director, Minton & Co., British Manufacturing Industries POTTERY, page #:42 https://archive.org/stream/britishmanufact08goog#page/n56/mode/2up/search/palissy

     Majolica was produced for the first time by Messrs. Minton, in 1850, and they have been for many years the only producers of this article. The name of majolica is now applied indiscriminately to all fancy articles of coloured pottery. When, however, it is decorated by means of coloured glazes, if these are transparent, it ought to be called Palissy ware […]

   • 1999, Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, Dictionary of Minton, ACC Art Books (2nd Revised edition edition 1 Jan. 1999), page #:124

     […] the coloured glaze decorated wares which we now call majolica, but which Minton referred to as Palissy wares..

   • 2018, Claire Blakey, Minton Majolica: A Visual Feast of Victorian Opulence Minton Archive http://www.themintonarchive.org.uk/in-depth-minton-majolica/

     Majolica is the term used to describe pottery made of an earthenware body coated with semi-translucent coloured lead glazes. It was developed at the Minton factory in the late 1840s by Léon Arnoux, who had come to the Potteries in 1848.

• maiolica

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1. (etymology)
• “majolica” in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 8th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1973 (1974 printing), OCLC 299192187.