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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Walter Del Pellegrino, post: 519388, member: 90&quot;]Your salts are faience, not majolica or maiolica. is the term used describe the process of decorating.</p><p>Majolica and faience are not interchangeable terms as is commonly believed. Majolica is first fired as unglazed refined clay at 750 degrees. When it has cooled (it is known as bisque at this point) it is dipped into a bath of fast drying liquid glaze. The glaze will be either “Primo Bianco” (White Primer) or “Smalto” (enamel). The chemicals that make up of these glazes vary from studio to studio and are closely guarded secrets. The artist can then begin creating a masterpiece of decoration using glazes that will adhere to the primer glaze. A second firing is required at 750 degrees for about 12 hours with another 12 hours required to allow the oven to cool off slowly. If the artist is creating lusterware majolica then a third firing would be required. </p><p>Faience, or glazed earthenware, is a pottery term for a different technique. It is a clay coated and decorated with an enamel tin oxide glaze and fired once in the kiln at a temperature range between 800-1000 degrees Celsius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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