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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 4261826, member: 8267&quot;]These Wikipedia articles are actually helpful in sorting out the terminology:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majolica" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majolica" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majolica</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiolica" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiolica" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiolica</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palissy_ware" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palissy_ware" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palissy_ware</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The technology of tin glazed pottery goes back at least to early medieval Islamic artisans. It appears that they were attempting to reproduce the effect of blue-on-white porcelains traded from China. Lacking the basic ingredients for porcelain, they instead created the opaque white tin glaze, applied to lower fired earthenware and decorated with colored enamels. The technology spread with Islam, to Spain and Sicily, from which it was introduced to Italian artisans.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]339024[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5358678" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5358678" rel="nofollow">https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5358678</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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