majolica

• Other decorative art offerings include art glass, majolica, Asian art, and many interesting group lots from local estates. —  Antique News News!
• She thought she had never seen such beauty--a lovely luminous majolica, living and palpitating, the glossy, svelte world-surface, the exquisite face of all the darkness. —  The Lost Girl
• Logs of juniper wood burned brightly on the hearth; the little tea-table stood ready with its cups and saucers of Castel-Durante majolica, of antique shape and inimitable grace, whereon were depicted mythological subjects by Luzio Dolci, with lines from Ovid underneath in black characters and a running hand. —  The Child of Pleasure
• She did not know how one man could be expected to be wiser than all his generation The Duc admired some majolica she had purchased She said she began to think that majolica was a false taste; the metallic lustre was fine, but how clumsy the forms! —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
• The manufacture of majolica, which, in its perfection, was not an unworthy successor of the pottery of Greece and Etruria, flourished there and in the neighboring cities on the Adriatic, and as far as Umbria. —  Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day

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