maiolica

One kind of maiolica may have been made in Mexico, while the few fragments of porcelain recovered were made in China.

Copies of their pictures were painted upon the maiolica by other hands, and vastly inferior ones to theirs.

A patron of all art, and a great collector, he encouraged the manufacture of the maiolica wares which flourished under his reign.

Francesco Saverio Grue, a man of letters and science, became about this time director of this Neapolitan maiolica fabrique.