Victorian majolica properly refers to two types of majolica made in the second half of the 19th century in Europe and America.
Monumental Minton peacock, circa 1870, coloured lead glazes. Naturalistic in style. Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Minton tin-glazed Majolica flower pot and stand imitating Italian Renaissance maiolica process and 'grotesque' style. Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Candelabra, 16.9 ins., coloured glazes majolica, 1864, Revivalist in style.
Bread plate or corn platter, temperature compatible coloured glazes on biscuit, naturalistic in style, surfaces molded in relief.
Lead-glazed earthenware is one of the traditional types of earthenware with a ceramic glaze, which coats the ceramic bisque body and renders it impervious to liquids, as terracotta itself is not. Plain lead glaze is shiny and transparent after firing. Coloured lead glazes are shiny and either translucent or opaque after firing. Three other traditional techniques are tin-glazed, which coats the ware with an opaque white glaze suited for overglaze brush-painted colored enamel designs; salt glaze pottery, also often stoneware; and the feldspathic glazes of Asian porcelain. Modern materials technology has invented new glazes that do not fall into these traditional categories.
A sancai lead-glazed earthenware saddled horse statuette, Tang dynasty (618–907 AD), coloured lead glazes.
Minton majolica game pie dish, lead-glazed earthenware, c. 1875, an iconic example of High Victorian appetite for innovation with humour/whimsy, coloured lead glazes
Toby jug made by Ralph Wood the Younger, Burslem, c. 1782–1795 (Victoria & Albert Museum), coloured lead glazes.