Bowl with Bird
Not on view
In the late 1200s, Italian ceramic artists began experimenting with the tin-glazed technique, in which designs were painted on the opaque white surface of a pot. Such pots famously became known as maiolica. The earliest examples, such as this small pot, display a limited palette of copper green and manganese brown, used to create a simple, almost improvisatory decorative scheme.
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