Italian Pottery

Italian pottery  is low-fired earthenware coated with an opaque tin oxide glaze. The firing temperatures allow for the vivid colors and beautiful designs. The name Majolica is thought to come from the medieval Italian word for Majorca, an island on the route for ships bringing Hispano-Moresque wares from Valencia to Italy.

Italian pottery  have always shown their Sicilian-ness in the ceramic art form, because the elements used for creating this type of art form, that is to say earth, water and fire are the same elements present in the history and culture of every Sicilian.

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