Minton Majolica

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Minton Majolica
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Introduction to Majolica

• Emerged during the reign of Queen Victoria
• Crystal Palace Exhibition, 1851
• 0ver 100,000 individual exhibitions
• divided into several main categories
• Initial Majolica images evoked Italian
  Renaissance masters

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What is Majolica?

• Interpreted as the third part of three major
  movements in the ceramics
• Leon Arnoux and his 1885 treatise
• Minton Majolica acted as a celebration of
  Victorian knowledge

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Minton Company

• Minton firm first produced transfer print
  earthenware
• Introduced porcelain in 1798
• Leon Arnoux
• Minton Majolica incorporates both French and
  Italian majolica styles

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Rise and Fall of Minton Majolica

• Exemplifies how ideas were transferred across
  time periods and countries
• Minton majolica during 1870s
• Minton Majolica output on the decline by 1880s

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Styles Shapes

• Renaissance
• Palissy
• Gothic Revival Medieval
• Naturalism
• Oriental and Islamic

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Renaissance Style
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Renaissance Style
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Palissy Style
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Gothic Revival and Medieval
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Naturalism
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Naturalism
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Oriental Islamic
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