Maiolica Olé: Spanish and Mexican Decorative Traditions

Description

Authors: Lister, Florence C. (1920-2016) and Lister, Robert (1915-1990)

Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 2001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition:  Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Printed boards.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  Spine foot worn, has two very small chips.  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes:  By the time of this book’s publication Bob Lister had been dead for more than a decade, so his credit as an author is just Florence being kind.  This is her baby.  “The development of the kind of ceramics now known as maiolica came about indirectly as a result of the first arrival in the Near East of Chinese ceramics.  Int the effort to duplicate grounds similar to those seen on Sung vessels, Arab potters found that the addition of a small amount of tin oxide to their common lead-fluxed glaze base would form not only a stable coating but an opaque white one which concealed the body clay beneath it.  They then discovered that designs painted in various mineral oxides over that ground would sink into the glaze as it softened and matured during firing, thus permanently fixing the pattern.” (Page 19).  NOT an exhibit catalog, this is a catalog of the collection of 144 pieces of Spanish and Mexican maiolica in the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe.