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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  decoration
  of  the  early  Italiau  wares  is  more  Persian  than  Moresque.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  peculianty
  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  figures ­
  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.”