2015 Year End Wrap Up
Every year at this time we check the stats at Blogger to see the posts that are most popular among our readers. As has been the case for the past several years, interest in posts on the three major...
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Majolica in the Media: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Ever on the lookout for our favorite esoteric Victorian earthenware, we were pleasantly surprised to see some on one of our favorite TV guilty pleasures: "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills." First...
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Majolica in the Movies: "Annie"
It was an uncharacteristically cold and rainy April afternoon that I decided to forgo my usual weekend chores and vegetate in front of the TV. I turned on my usual go-to channel, Turner Classic Movies,...
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Purple Majolica Rain
Like most people alive in the 1980s, we cannot conceive of the decade without the music of Prince. He and Michael Jackson dominated that decade musically with many of our fondest memories triggered by...
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The State of the Majolica Market c.1993
A friend of ours emailed us an article he found in an old newsletter, Kovel's on Antiques and Collectibles from August 1993. The article was titled "The Majolica Market" and read as follows:"Victorian...
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Majolica in the Movies: Brooklyn
A very sweet romantic look at the immigrant experience, Brooklyn is a 2015 movie set in post war New York City. The basic story concerns a young woman, Eilis (pronounced ELL-ish) played by Academy...
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Majolica Pigs and Boars
Our porcine friends are a surprisingly common theme in majolica particularly in Continental majolica. Humidors, match strikers, pitchers, banks and toothpicks are all easily found. Boar head terrines...
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Christopher Dresser and the Majolica of Ault, Bretby and Linthorpe
Unlike most of the articles we write about on this blog, this post is about Late and Post Victorian majolica. It is also about a designer– Christopher Dresser –and the influence he had on the...
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The Elusive Majolica of the Victoria Pottery Company
One of the least familiar names in English majolica is the Victoria Pottery Company. Rarely seen today because of its brief production output, it is among the finest quality majolica made during the...
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Majolica Game Terrines and Soup Tureens
It's holiday time again. The time of year when friends and family gather to celebrate the joys of the season. This year we thought we'd do a celebration of the majolica game terrine, that wonderfully...
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A Majolica Mystery: Is it real or is it a fake?
We were surfing online recently and a particular piece of majolica caught our attention. It was the Oak leaf tray shown above. It presumes to be an Etruscan oak leaf tray by the Etruscan Works of...
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2016 Year End Wrap Up
The year in majolica, and in fact for antique pottery in general, has continued the trend we've been seeing since the economic meltdown of 2008. Like everything else in this economy, the rich got...
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Happy Holidays from Glazed & Confused!
May this holiday season bring you all your heart's desires!
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The Latest Majolica Reproductions–Winter 2017 Edition
It's been some time since we've had a post on majolica reproduction. They are consistently the most popular posts that we do. Is it any wonder? The sea of majolica reproductions grows deeper every...
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The Shaky World of Pottery Attribution
Every antique pottery buyer has had this experience. You go into an antique shop and see a well known design of pottery marked on the sales tag with the wrong manufacturer's attribution. What do you...
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What the Heck is That 2?
It's been quite a while since we've done a "What the Heck is That?" post. Most likely it's because majolica is generally pretty obvious in its iconography. Lately however we've come across another...
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French Barbotine Majolica and the Work of Perret-Gentil, Menton
Picturing the citrus representative of the area is this turn of century poster for MentonIt is probably something of a redundancy to refer to a special type of French majolica as "Barbotine" since it...
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Cyber Crime and the Remote Auction Buyer
Unlike most of our posts, the subject of this is not about ceramics. It is however about the tools one maintains when buying remotely by auction, something most antiques buyers do. Whether you buy...
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Antique Pottery Repair
A reader recently asked us a question concerning pottery repair and it occurred to us that on our blog we've never addressed the different kinds of repair available to the antique pottery...
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