maiolica in English
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1
fine earthenware with colored decoration on an opaque white tin glaze, originating in Italy during the Renaissance.
Traditionally, maiolica is earthenware with a lead-based glaze made opaque by tin oxide.
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1. Glazes with even-higher lead content occur in Spanish and Italian maiolica, with up to 55% PbO and as low as 3% alkali.