Crossword-Solution: MAIOLICA 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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

Italian Maiolica.--Maiolica is a word derived from a type of pottery made on the Spanish island of Mallorca.

The 17th-century Italian maiolica-ware found at Jamestown is a red-body earthenware with scratched or incised designs--a true sgraffito-ware.

Spanish Maiolica.--This maiolica is a tin-glazed earthenware with a soft body usually buff in color and porous in texture.

While Antonius Stradiuarius and Joseph Guarnerius were occupied with the noble instruments which have immortalized their names, Canaletto was painting his Venetian squares and canals, Giorgio was superintending the manufacture of his inimitable maiolica, and the Venetians were blowing glass of marvelous beauty and form.