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Encyclopedia Britannica

MAJOLICA

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 450 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL

MAJOLICA , a name properly applied to a

species

SPECIES

of Italian

ware

WARE

in which the

body

BODY

is coated with a tin-enamel, on which is laid and fired a painted decoration. It is also applied to similar wares made in imitation of the Italian

ware

WARE

in other countries. The word in Italian is majolica. Du Cange (

Gloss

GLOSS, GLOSSARY

. s.v. "Majorica") quotes from a chronicle of Verona of 1368, in which the form majolica occurs for the more usual Latin form majorica. It has usually been supposed that this type of pottery was first made in the

island

land
- LAND
_.html">ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +
land
- LAND
')

of

Majorca

MAJORCA (Mallorca)

, but it is more probable that the name was given by the Italians to the lustred Spanish ware imported by

ships

SHIPS

hailing from the Balearic Islands. (See

CERAMICS

CERAMICS, or KERAMICS (Gr. KEpapos, earthenware)

:

Medieval

MEDIEVAL

and Later Italian.)

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