Noun:

इटली में बनाए जाने वाले मिट्टी के बर्तन जिन पर नक्काशी की जाती है, मेजोलिका,

majolica's Usage Examples:

Throughout the whole of the 16th century the state of Urbino was one of the chief centres for the production of majolica, especially the towns of Gubbio and Castel Durante.

The town has manufactures of silk, majolica and bricks.

The municipal art gallery contains an altar-piece by Girolamo da Treviso (who also painted a fresco in the Chiesa della Commenda), a wooden St Jerome by Donatello, and a bust of the young St John by Antonio Rossellino (?), and some fine specimens of majolica, a variety of which, faience, takes its name from the town.

The collection of majolica in the municipal museum is very fine, and so is that of the Funghini family.

At the beginning of the 15th century it went over to Venice; its industries flourished under Venetian government, especially its printingpress and manufacture of majolica, the latter of which still continues.

Gubbio occupies a far more important place in the history of majolica.

It contains the famous Tabulae Iguvinae, and a collection of paintings of the Umbrian school, of furniture and of majolica.

There are manufactures of paper, hats, leather, ropes, porcelain, majolica, soap, spirits, and ornaments made of palm leaves and grasses.

The campanile (850-878) is circular, and has perhaps the earliest example of the use of disks of coloured majolica as a decoration.

To these may be added the industrial museum, the cabinet of coins, the museum of natural history, the collection of majolica vases in the new palace, and the Wurttemberg museum of antiquities.

Synonyms:

earthenware, maiolica,