For all the images of beautiful women, in paintings and on the tin-glazed pottery called maiolica, the bella donna remained property.    From Wordnik.com.  [WFAA.com Latest News] Reference

The lavish wedding celebrations of the period were marked by extravagant gifts, such as maiolica decorated with narratives or portraits; rare Venetian glassware; rings (including one of the earliest known diamond wedding rings) and other jewelry; delicate gilded boxes; and vividly painted cassoni, or bridal chests, which would be filled with costly linens and clothing.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The maiolica technique can also be used by decorating with coloured glazes on top of the basic glaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [12. Developing glazes] Reference

This maiolica is a tin-glazed earthenware with a soft body usually buff in color and porous in texture.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference

The 17th-century Italian maiolica-ware found at Jamestown is a red-body earthenware with scratched or incised designs -- a true sgraffito-ware.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference

A few examples of maiolica found at Jamestown are believed to have been made in Lisbon, and these usually have designs in blues and dark purples against a white background.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference

More fluxes are added to maiolica colorants than to underglaze colorants and the lower the viscosity of the colors and the glaze is, the more the decoration will run and the contours of the decoration will be blurred.    From Wordnik.com.  [12. Developing glazes] Reference

Not all the maiolica and other decorative pieces celebrated love and marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News] Reference

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Likewise, the safe birth of a child was celebrated and commemorated with the production of finely painted deschi da parto (wooden childbirth trays) and maiolica childbirth bowls known as scodelle da parto.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Among the most excessive is the ravishing Vila Algarve, a rococo fantasy of curving terraces and balconies and stairways, topped off with urns and grotesques and maiolica-tiled tableaux, the whole place teetering on the verge of complete disintegration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

That's answered in the show's first part, "Celebrating Betrothal, Marriage and Childbirth," with its colorful ceramic pottery (maiolica), Venetian glassware, finely crafted wedding rings, painted bridal chests (cassoni), marriage portraits and birth trays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News] Reference

This new acquisition - a gift to The Frick Collection by Dianne Dwyer Modestini in memory of her husband, Mario Modestini - is the inspiration for a small focus exhibition on the Fontana workshop's highly decorative maiolica painted with delicate grotesques on a whitened ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Knowledge News] Reference

One kind of maiolica may have been made in.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference