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For our Great Exhbition, I will be studying the vibrant creations of majicola pottery. Bard Graduate Center describes these creations as, "the nineteenth century’s most significant and successful ceramic innovations." They continue on to cite its origins stating, "Introduced by Minton & Co. at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, majolica quickly became a commercial sensation, celebrated for its three-dimensional ornament and vibrant polychrome lead-based glazes. From the 1850s through the turn of the twentieth century, dozens of English and American potteries made majolica. Their enormous output ranged from large, magnificent pieces for international exhibition displays to tableware and other smaller household objects that appealed to fashionable Victorians on both sides of the Atlantic.” 

Urn by Aiguière. Collection d’Andrew Fountaine Esquire,  Narford Hall, Angleterre.