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  2. Maiolica - Wikipedia

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    Italian cities encouraged the pottery industry by offering tax relief, citizenship, monopoly rights, and protection from outside imports. An important mid-sixteenth century document for the techniques of maiolica painting is the treatise of Cipriano Piccolpasso . [ 22 ]

  3. Faience - Wikipedia

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    Faience. Faience or faïence (/ faɪˈɑːns, feɪˈ -, - ˈɒ̃s /; French: [fajɑ̃s] ⓘ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. The invention of a white pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the slip of a lead glaze, was a major advance in the history of pottery.

  4. Capodimonte porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Capodimonte porcelain (sometimes "Capo di Monte") is porcelain created by the Capodimonte porcelain manufactory (Real Fabbrica di Capodimonte), which operated in Naples, Italy, between 1743 and 1759. Capodimonte is the most significant factory for early Italian porcelain, the Doccia porcelain of Florence being the other main Italian factory.

  5. Tin-glazed pottery - Wikipedia

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    Tin-glazed (majolica/maiolica) plate from Faenza, Italy. Tin-glazed pottery is earthenware covered in lead glaze with added tin oxide [1] which is white, shiny and opaque (see tin-glazing for the chemistry); usually this provides a background for brightly painted decoration. It has been important in Islamic and European pottery, but very little ...

  6. Porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Porcelain (/ ˈpɔːrs (ə) lɪn /) is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200 and 1,400 °C (2,200 and 2,600 °F). The greater strength and translucence of porcelain, relative to other types of pottery, arise mainly from vitrification and the formation of the ...

  7. Le Nove porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Le Nove porcelain. Bowl with cover, 1765–70, painted with ruins, soft-paste porcelain. Le Nove porcelain was made in the 18th century in the town now called Nove, near Bassano, then in the Republic of Venice 's mainland territories, the terrafirma. It was made at a factory owned by Pasquale Antonibon, who was already making fine maiolica in ...

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