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of earthenware, excepting " terraglia,” in distinction from 
porcelain.* 
It has also been maiutaihed, tbat although Majorcan wares 
were known in Italy, the art may have been derived from 
Persian potters reacbing the eastern ports of that country. 
Tliis view is supported by the fact, that the style of decora- 
tion of the early Italiau wares is more Persian than Mo- 
resque.f Again, it is suggested that after the conquest of 
Majorca and of the province of Valencia, at the end of the 
thirteenth Century, Moorish potters emigrated to Italy and 
introduced tbeir practice of the art with the tin <daze t and 
metalhc lustre. ° + ‘ 
In England and in the United States it is the habit to desio-- 
nate as " majohea ” auy pottery covered with a colored glaze. 
The term should be restricted to wäre coated with opaque 
enamels. The ornamental wäre, especially when -njodelled 
after natural objects, and coated with transparent glazes of 
various colors, is more correctly described as Palissy wäre. 
Capo-di-Monti Waue. 
Ginori, The Marquis of: porcelain mannfactory, Doccia 
near Florence. This establishment, founded in the year 
1735, now produces many varieties of artistic and domestic 
porcelain and decorative objects, in majolica and faiencc. It 
is celebrated especially for its reproductions of the famous 
Capo-di-Monti wäre, the pieces being made from the old 
moulds, and so well colored as scarcely to be distinguished 
from the old examples preserved in collections. The pecu- 
lianty of this wäre, as is generally known to connoisseurs, 
consists in the decoration of the surface by groups of male 
and female figures in relief, covering the surface on cups and 
saucers, vases, plaques, boxes, jugs, etc. Most of the fig 
ures are in a nude or semi-nude condition, and are tinted 
with flesh color, and are surrounded by flowers or wreaths, 
of which pink or rose color is the prevailing color. Many öf 
* Fortnum’s Maiolica Hispano Moresco, Persian, Damascus, and Rhodian Wares 
etc., pagc xxxvii. of Introdnction. * ’ 
t Jacquemart, cited by Fortnum, ibid., p. xxxix. 
t w Ith regard to the origin of the tin glaze, usnally attributed to Luca della 
Robbia, see infra, Part “ Ceraraic Ciays and Materials.”