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Abstract In this work, pigments of majolicas made between the sixteenth century and eighteenth century from Gerace have been characterized by micro-Raman spectroscopy. Majolica, known also as pottery, was originally used to identify all objects made from clay materials. In this work, ten samples were analyzed: two vases, six majolica fragments made in Gerace, one vase of uncertain origin (probably Gerace or Caltagirone) and one vase of Venetian origin. The Raman spectroscopic analysis allowed to identify most of the pigments present on the studied cultural heritage pottery above described. Pigments white, yellow, orange, red, blue, and green have been characterized and their attribution allowed to divide the artwork made in Gerace with those made wherever. Graphical Abstract more...

In this work, pigments of majolicas made between the sixteenth century and eighteenth century from Gerace have been characterized by micro-Raman spectroscopy. Majolica, known also as pottery, was originally used to identify all objects made from clay materials. In this work, ten samples were analyzed: two vases, six majolica fragments made in Gerace, one vase of uncertain origin (probably Gerace or Caltagirone) and one vase of Venetian origin. The Raman spectroscopic analysis allowed to identify most of the pigments present on the studied cultural heritage pottery above described. Pigments white, yellow, orange, red, blue, and green have been characterized and their attribution allowed to divide the artwork made in Gerace with those made wherever. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

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Abstract Background Fundamental restoration of sculptures must include the research of pollution composition and exhibit surface condition as well as accurate identification of the materials of sculptures, bas-reliefs and coatings. In the recent years, studies of marble objects aimed at identification of contamination nature and composition have been developed. It should be noted that some exhibits have individual features as objects of restoration due to complex exposure to the environment, e.g. to fire. Results The article describes the results of surface contamination study on two exhibits from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts collection. Marble relief sculpture “The Flagellation of Christ” was the main object of the study. Glazed terracotta (majolica) “Madonna Friedrichshain” was studied as a control sample with the same type of contaminations but with less sensitive surface. According to the results of different gas chromatography and X-ray fluorescence analyses, pollution compounds were identified as fatty alcohols, fatty acids and esters, part of which being residues of pyrolysis gasification, including those containing iron and lead. In order to gently clean the exhibits, several variants of chemical compounds were proposed based on various chelating agent mixtures, and, after studying their comparative effectiveness, the optimal scheme was chosen for removing existing contamination. For verification of marble exhibits safety, selected cleaning mixtures were tested on polished Carrara marble sample. Conclusion The most suitable scheme of organic contaminations removal including those containing iron and lead was suggested as part of restoration process. There is a number of working schemes of cleaning the surface of exhibits, however our proposed scheme interacts with the marble surface more gently because the target cleaning mixture composition was formulated taking into account the nature of pollutants and the least possible impact on the sample surface. more...

This paper deals with the findings of Hospital Viejo site of Logroño (La Rioja, Spain), which yielded the largest evidence of local pottery production, comprising three kilns and a potters' dump (13th–15th centuries). The study of pottery production in inland Iberia provides valuable information on the material conditions in which the Iberian medieval and post-medieval society occurred. Yet, the territory of La Rioja has been largely eclipsed by studies at coastal and southern areas of Iberia, due to their role in maritime exchange. With the aim of understanding the specific incidence and evolution of medieval pottery at regional scale, 77 sherds (MNI 637) including glazed and unglazed ware and kiln utensils were archaeometrically examined by combining the use of ICP-MS, XRD and SEM-EDS. Likewise, NAA was applied for provenance analysis, including the collation with a large majolica NAA database. The results provided the first chemical fingerprint of the production from Logroño consisting on three compositional groups within the same workshop (LOG-A, LOG-B and LOG-C). Moreover, pottery trading from Teruel and Valencia was detected, sustaining the historical records of these trade-networks. The imports showed tin lead glazes obtained by known recipes, contrasting with simpler manufactures (mostly unglazed or only lead glazed) of contemporary Logroño. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

This article concerns medicinal preparations from the first European pharmacopoeia listed on the cartouches of apothecary majolica vessels (16th-18thript> century) from the Grabowski collection at the Museum of Pharmacy in Kraków. The materials for comparison are three 16th-century works: Ricettario Fiorentino (1550), Pharmacopoea by J. Placotomus (1560) and Dispensatorium by V. Cordus (1563). The inscriptions on the apothecary jars for which they were meant comprise greatly important information carriers about medicine in the old days. Their deciphering can also be helpful when dating these objects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

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In this paper we present a brief description of the majolica and other earthenware recovered at Incahuasi Ore’s villages: Nuestra Señora de Loreto de Ingaguasi and Agua Salada (Catamarca Province, Argentina). They are part of a much bigger material culture assemblage that belonged to a mining community from mid-Eighteenth Century. more...

The article discusses the use of Maiolica bricks as artifacts for surface decorations in both monumental and ordinary architectures in the Mediterranean regions in Sicily, Italy. It refers to the categorization of these architectural polychrome elements for typology and construction and decorative systems. more...

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The wealthy mathematician and university professor Alfred Pringsheim (1850-1941), Thomas Mann's father-in-law, owned one of Germany's most important private collections of Renaissance art - especially applied art. Amassed between 1880 and the First World War, it focused mainly on Italian maiolica and silver from German-speaking regions. Pringsheim displayed his collection in his own home, a mansion in Munich built by Berlin architects and furnished in southern German-Swiss Late Renaissance style. Photographs that have only recently come to light allow the ambitious staging of the ensemble within this historicist interior to be reconstructed. After the Nazi seizure of power, the Jewish Pringsheims were forced to sell their house to the National Socialists. The silver collection was confiscated by the Gestapo in 1938 and acquired by the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in 1941. Following their restitution to Pringsheim's heirs, the silver objects at the centre of this study are now scattered all over the globe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

Acompounded mixture of fritted white, bright, glass ceramic, glaze coating for household majolica in the system NaO-KO-CaO-BO-AlO-ZrO-SiO is developed. The structure of the coating is distinguished by homogeneity and uniformity of the distribution of the crystalline formations over the entire volume of the glaze. The physical and chemical properties of the glaze coating (CLTE = (50.2 - 50.5) × 10 K, thermal resistance 150°C, whiteness 80 - 82%, brightness 87 - 89%, microhardness 5350 - 5400 MPa) attest an appropriate ratio of the crystalline and glassy phases in the glass ceramic coating formed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

The section of Gorgo a Cerbara in Italy has been proposed as the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Barremian/Aptian boundary (Lower Cretaceous). This section displays the transition between the white pelagic limestones of the Maiolica Formation (Tithonian-lowermost Aptian) and the polychrome marls of the Marne a Fucoidi Formation (Aptian-Albian). The Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE 1a) anoxic horizon (Selli Level) is located in the latter formation. Here, we report for the first time a palynostratigraphical assessment of this key section, with a very high resolution in the Selli Level. Palynomorph groups recorded include acritarchs, microforaminiferal test linings, 58 dinoflagellate cysts, 44 sporomorph taxa, and freshwater fungal and algal bodies. These include such biostratigraphical markers as Rhynchodiniopsis aptiana and Odontochitina operculata among the dinoflagellate cysts and Afropollis cf. jardinus among sporomorphs. Biostratigraphical events recognised allow comparisons with previously studied successions in other similar areas (e.g. Cismon apticore in the Southern Alps, Italy). The distribution of taxa recorded in the Gorgo a Cerbara section is generally consistent with published data, but several differences between the assemblages recorded in the Cismon apticore and in this study were noted. The best global markers for the Barremian/Aptian boundary are represented by the disappearance of R. aptiana and by the appearance of O. operculata, but in this section these occurred 0.65-1.35 Myr after the magnetostratigraphically defined boundary, within the Selli Level. The angiosperm pollen A. cf. jardinus is recorded only within the Selli Level (from 1.4 to 1.6 Myr after the Barremian/Aptian boundary), consistent with an Early Aptian age. A cluster of 10 extremely short-ranging dinoflagellate cyst excursion taxa appear in this section coincident with the Nannoconid Crisis event and its associated thermal peak, ca. 10-20 kyr before the onset of the OAE 1a. Several short-ranging Pteridophyta spore species are found only within the Selli Level itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

The new, hybrid scholarly field of political ecology, focused on the twenty-first century's innovation-driven economy, has perspectives useful in studying an earlier "global" or "knowledge" economy that emerged in Spain's sixteenth century colonial enterprise. This essay explores the production of tin-enameled pottery (majolica; loza) in Spain and its colonies, particularly the viceroyalty of Peru, through the field's dual emphasis on the political (the ethno-religious persecution of Muslims, and the mercantilist trade policies of Christian Spain) and the ecological (resource availability and use). Political-ecological concepts such as "business clusters," "gatekeepers," and "pipelines" can be applied to the many factors influencing the history of development of this ware in Spain and Ibero-America. In contrast to today's economy, attitudes toward innovation in pottery were rather ambivalent, and innovations were primarily introduced from outside Spain (especially from Italy) rather than internally developed. Early tin-enameled ware produced in the Andes follows traditional Hispano-Moresque green and black decoration, unlike in Mexico, where it was relegated to second-class status. Blue painting arrived late, but it is not known if this was because the potters who settled in the Andes were primarily morisco refugees or a consequence of lack of access to cobalt pigment because of the region's distance from Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

The present work focuses on majolica objects from the collection of the museum of ceramic in Ascoli Piceno (Italy). The scientific investigation was performed on fragments detached from seven maiolicas attributed to the Castelli production (Abruzzi region) and one majolica from the Ascoli Piceno production (Marche region). The Castelli artifacts (late sixteenth-early eighteenth century) belong to the decorated style known as ' compendiario.' The piece from Ascoli Piceno recalls the decoration style of the other considered objects and is attributable to the 'Paci' manufacture (first half of the nineteenth century). The selected objects were investigated by fiber optics reflectance spectroscopy, micro-X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy coupled with electron-dispersive X-ray spectrometry. The ceramic bodies of all objects are calcareous, whereas the glazes are lead-alkali type opacified by tin dioxide. Blue and purplish-red decorations were obtained by cobalt and manganese compounds dissolved in the glaze, respectively. Yellow and orange decorations were obtained by particles of lead antimonate and hematite. Finally, black decorations were obtained using compounds rich in manganese and iron. The study contributes to knowledge on the production of Castelli ceramics and presents first archaeometric data on the maiolica production from Ascoli Piceno. The scientific examination highlights continuity with the Renaissance production, and the joint contribution of the three analytical techniques suggests distinctive features among different productions, thus integrating and refining the information obtained by the art-historical study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

Maiolica (tin-enameled earthenware) was a staple of daily life for serving food and drink, as well as other household purposes, in Spain and Spanish America throughout the colonial period. Examining choices in ceramic styles is one way to examine the colonial policies of reducción, which were to instill a regular, commonplace Christian order in everyday life. The Río Ceniza Valley of western El Salvador, the heartland of the Nahua-speaking Pipil polity known as the Izalcos, was a center of Spanish colonial commerce in Guatemala. This research presents a typology and chronology of Guatemalan maiolica, the stylistic similarities of its maiolica types to trends in Europe, and frequencies in rural vs. urban use, based on an ample collection of 16th- to 19th-century Guatemalan maiolica from extensive survey and excavations. The relative importance of maiolica vs. maiolica attributes on indigenous-made pottery gives a view into daily life under extreme conditions of colonialism and the process of reducción. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

Ex voto are devotional objects, widely used in Italy as a form of prayer or wish, or as thanksgiving for a grace received. In a broader historical perspective, votive offerings are hung in Greek, Etruscan, Roman shrines and later in churches or to show gratitude for miracles obtained, healing from illness or infirmity, or as a simple supplication and prayer. The ex voto here presented seem to be unique in the world: made of majolica, they come from the church of St. Roch in Castelli (Abruzzo). They depict breast benign and malignant lesions (mastitis, abscess, fat necrosis, inflammatory cancer, infiltrating carcinoma) in three dimensions, performing an accurate and personalized portrait of breast diseases (in some cases with the depicted name of the sick woman), showing fine details of each disease, and demonstrating accurate knowledge of the female anatomy and pathology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

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The article presents 23 antique pharmaceutical vessels from the Kraków's Museum of Pharmacy. The whole collection consists of 83 vessels, which in 1976 were donated to the Museum by Bronisław Mateusz Grabowski, a pharmacist and an art collector. Apart from the information about the donor as well as the major types of majolica pharmaceutical vessels, the article presents the pictures of the selected vessels and their descriptions which are made up of such elements as the type of a vessel, its size, character of decoration, the place and time of origin and the explanation of the inscription (name of medicament, its composition and application). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

The article consists of four elements: description of the jar (type, character of decoration, provenance etc.), explanation of the inscription (the name of a former multi-ingredient medication), information about its principal ingredient (kermes and its substitutes: cochineal and Polish cochineal), and the history of the medication (from antiquity to the end of the 19th century). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

The results of an archaeometric trial study performed on an important finding of Renaissance maiolica (mid-15th to early 16th century) from the Ducal Palace of Urbino are presented. Mineralogical-petrographic data ( XRD, OP, SEM-EDS) and chemical characterization ( ICP/AES-MS: major and trace elements) of both ceramic bodies and glazes were compared with similar data provided on coeval maiolica found in archaeological excavations in Pesaro, now stored in the city's Municipal Museum, in order to verify an origin of the potteries from common ( Pesaro) or different ( Pesaro and Urbino) production centres. The results indicate that ceramic bodies were produced with quite similar illitic-calcareous clays, most probably taken from the same local Pliocene Formation. Similarities were also found concerning the glaze's glass (silica-lead), colourants (cobalt, copper and manganese) and pigments (lead antimonate and cassiterite). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

In this study, an archaeometric characterization of 32 ceramic fragments from Talavera de la Reina and El Puente del Arzobispo, dated between the 16th and 18th centuries, has been carried out. Together with three fragments of biscuit, they have been analysed through X-ray diffraction ( XRD), X-ray fluorescence ( XRF), differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis ( DSC- TGA). From these chemical results, a statistical study using exclusively majolica ceramics has been carried out. This work has allowed us to find certain differences between the manufactures of the two production centres on the basis of their chemical composition. The mineralogical study has allowed us to determine the estimated firing temperatures of each sample, using the estimated firing temperature ( EFT) as an argument for their classification into three fabrics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...