Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and america, 1850–1915

Colourful, wildly imaginative, and technically progressive, majolica was useful and aesthetic ceramic ware. Its subject material displays a spread of Nineteenth-century preoccupations, from botany and zoology to common humor and the macabre. 
Majolica Mania examines the medium’s appreciable impression, from wares utilized in home settings to monumental items on the World’s Gala’s. Essays by worldwide  specialists deal with the intensive output of the originators and producers in England—together with Minton, Wedgwood, and George Jones—and the migration of English craftsmen to the U.S. New analysis together with info on essential American makers in New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia can also be featured. Absolutely illustrated, the e-book is enlivened by new images of items from main museums and personal collections within the U.S. and Nice Britain.