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Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition yet mounted of a significant nineteenth-century innovation in ceramics. Inspired by Italian Renaissance maiolica and French Palissy ware, “majolica” debuted at London’s Great Exhibition of 1851 and was an immediate sensation. This molded earthenware capitalized on new production techniques and brightly colored lead-based glazes and allowed for a diversity of ...

Consider the lobster...ceramics now on view at the Bard Graduate Center as part of a landmark new show, Majolica Mania.

Mass-produced majolica has often been sneered at – but its exuberance is what makes it so appealing, writes Susan Weber

While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture. The second half of the 19th century saw a profusion of flamboyant pottery, spurred by the invention in Britain of ‘majolica’ – a new form of earthenware, which took its cues from the  maiolica ceramics of Renaissance Italy but which could be produced on an industrial scale. Eccentric designs and vivid, polychrome glazes abounded on both sides of the Atl...

Why Wild, Wonderful Majolica Is Exactly What You Should Be Collecting Right Now It's like taking a fantastical ride down a Victorian rabbit hole. Meg Lukens Noonan Courtesy of Linda Horn In frock coats and hoop skirts, eager throngs packed London’s Crystal Palace, a cavernous glass-and-iron hall, to view the wonders of industry and design on display at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Among the marvels at that first-ever world’s fair (folding pianos, expanding hearses, and giant steam-powered hammers) were several pieces of colorful pottery produced by Minton & Co., one of England’...