maiolica

English

Noun

maiolica (countable and uncountable, plural maiolicas)

1. Alternative form of majolica (“earthenware coated with opaque white tin glaze”)
   • 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 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.

Italian

Noun

maiolica f (plural maioliche)

1. majolica

Derived terms

• maiolicaio
• maiolicare
• maiolicato

 

See also

• ceramica