What Is Majolica - How to Collect Majolica 2021
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’...
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